For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.
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If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.
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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
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The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours, The sentimentalist himself; while art...
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Dick is the saddest thing on the planet. It's got an eye that can't see, a head with no brain, and has 3 neighbours which 2 are nuts, while the other is an asshole.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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