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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of th

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather

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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other peoples places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. – English Proverb

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