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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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. – Willa Cather

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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – 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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Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off. – Bible

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

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You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 – Bible

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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesnt climb over it. – Arthur Baer

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Everythings got a moral, if only you can find it. – Lewis Carroll

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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. – George Bernard Shaw

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People who dont read seem to me mysterious. I dont know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. – Nina Bawden

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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do. – Phillips Brooks

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