[Verginius Rufus]

Just looked that up in "Bartlett's Quotations."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

Attributed to Lesley Poles Hartley (1895-1972), prologue to The Go-Between (1953)

[sopo]

Thanks for completing that. I think I read it on a dust jacket while browsing a book store. didn’t know it would be in Bartlett’s.