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"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
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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."
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"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."
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"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage."
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"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
Writing
"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
Government
"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."
Society
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
Courage
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
Work
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
Nature
"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."
Man
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"Life is a school of probability."
Life
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