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"The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbours." - F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms

"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours." - Confucius

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say." - Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour." - Horace

"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours." - Edgar Watson Howe

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours." - Dean William R. Inge

"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." - Harry S. Truman

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