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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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"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."
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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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"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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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
Nature
"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
Perception
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
Man
"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
Car
"The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it."
Cure
"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."
Food
"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."
Money
"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."
Nation
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
Work
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