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HES: QUERY -- The past is a distant country
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[log in to unmask] (Ross B. Emmett)
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Fri Mar 31 17:19:19 2006
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Perhaps it's cheating, but I tracked down the quotation before sending  
the request to the list! 
 
The actual quotation is: 
 
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." 
 
The source is L.P. Hartley (1895-1972), The Go-Between, in the  
prologue. 
 
My source was the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. A search on the  
internet was frustrated by not having the right first line! 
 
Ross Emmett 
 
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