“Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.”
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XLI (p. 204)
“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”
Book VII (1765), Ch. 2.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
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