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“A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 346.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 81e62fe4653a57a9cb9d7d7c9e56202c39c4ba85745c87551bf28bce0f2b6558
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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