FOREIGN, adj. Belonging to another and inferior country.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist
“Foreign,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-12-13)
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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
Laurence Sterne (1713–1786) Anglo-Irish novelist, Anglican clergyman
Tristam Shandy, Book 7, ch. 2 (1765)
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
The Silverado Squatters, “With the Children of Israel,” sec. 3 (1883)
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