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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."
"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."
"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage."
"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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"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."
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