#neighbour

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ↗

— Gilbert White

#deer #harm #herds #injury #large

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees. ↗

— Charles Bent

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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#appreciate #been #beginning #blessing #disguise

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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