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NUMBER:8752
QUOTATION:A good neighbour, even in this,
Is fatal sometimes, cuts your morning up
To mince-meat of the very smallest talk,
Then helps to sugar her bohea at night
With your reputation.
ATTRIBUTION:Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), British poet. Aurora Leigh, bk. 4 (1857).
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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