NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. (Ambrose Bierce)

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce

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