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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
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Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
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Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
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Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
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Jewish Proverb
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood.
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Russian Proverb
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
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Tom Thompson
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
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