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Quote by Norman Douglas
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. – Norman Douglas

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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Age
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Norman Douglas
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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Wisdom
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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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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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Neighbors

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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A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. – Hesiod

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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. – Miguel de Unamuno

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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. – R. D. Laing

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When I get recognized for Twilight, its usually a teenage girl, and theyre usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are. – Anna Kendrick

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