Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.
Tanzanian Proverb
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NICHOLSON BAKER Either do as your neighbors do, or move away
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W. BRUCE CAMERON To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
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SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.
GAELIC PROVERB Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
RUDYARD KIPLING learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Do not fear for me. Make straight your own path to destiny.
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