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

Neighbours

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

3.1 · 57 votes

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Don't throw stones at your neighbours , if your own windows are glass.

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

3.0 · 26 votes

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Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies.

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NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

3.3 · 48 votes

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

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Good fences make good neighbours.

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EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

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Hedges between keep friendships green.

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4.9 · 29 votes · 151 reads

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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as

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Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour.

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AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

4.2 · 37 votes

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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

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PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

3.3 · 59 votes

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Love thy neighbour - but don't pull down your hedge.

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Benjamin Franklin

PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

4.8 · 41 votes

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Love thy neighbour but keep your high.
Anonymous
4.2 · 27 votes · 27 reads
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Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.
English proverb
English
3.0 · 24 votes · 199 reads
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Of neighbourhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
Confucius
PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC
4.9 · 46 votes · 32 reads
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To love our neighbour as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke
PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century
4.1 · 20 votes · 89 reads
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
4.2 · 19 votes · 173 reads
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Your next-door neighbour is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
4.4 · 18 votes · 87 reads
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbour's house is in flames.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
3.2 · 26 votes · 164 reads
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