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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."

"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."
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"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."

"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds."

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."

"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
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