Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...every way that I am surprised it has not been thought of before and carried into execution. An objection has been raised that it might cause some dissatisfaction, either called up by the sensitiveness on the part of one man that would prevent his ordering for himself what his neighbor could not afford to have, or growing out of the envy of the neighbor caused by his inability to enjoy what his richer classmate has. But surely this is a puerile objection! Why, on the same principle, should one man wear a better coat than another? Why do some...
...much similarity in men's tastes that they converge by some natural law towards red curtains, cheap prints (obtained we all know how), photographs of Soldene, Aimee, etc., etc.; or, is it merely because it is easier to fit up a room after the stereotyped pattern of one's neighbor's, than to exercise individual taste...
...Have not all men eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and limbs alike? Have not all men minds and thoughts? Do not all men eat, and drink, and sleep, and talk? And does the fact that a man eats, or drinks, or sleeps, or talks more than his neighbor make him that neighbor's superior? The idea is preposterous, it is shameful, it is damnable. The man who publicly declares that there are lower classes is worthy of the gallows...
...with whom they are personally unacquainted, and of whose merits they know only from the testimony of others; or to back steadily the man of their acquaintance who appears to them to be best fitted for the place. As each man's acquaintance is different from that of his neighbor, and as each man's opinion is generally formed in a manner peculiar to himself, a conscientious adherence to the last method would tend to produce a number of candidates positively appalling. Most are sensible enough to perceive this, and most cast their votes for regular nominees, although cases have...
About a year ago I visited Lisbon. On the evening of my arrival I found myself seated at an excellent table d'hote, with a number of well-dressed and well-behaved people of all nations about me, and with an Englishman for a neighbor. He was a very well informed and agreeable person; and, being thoroughly familiar with Portugal, he gave me in the course of half an hour an excellent idea of the attractions of Lisbon and its neighborhood. At the end of that time I happened to incidentally remark that I was an American...