Quote by Willa Cather
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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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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. – Willa Cather

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor. – G. K. Chesterton

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Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off. – Bible

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Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. – Confucius

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Hedges between keep friendships green. – Proverb

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The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! – Sholem Asch

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