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Good fences make good neighbors

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Good fences make good neighbors.
Prov. It is easier to be friendly with your neighbor if neither of you trespasses upon the other's property or privacy. Jane: The guy next door is letting his party guests wander across our lawn again. Alan: I guess we'll have to build a fence there. Good fences make good neighbors, like they say.
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When Robert Frost said good fences make good neighbors, he couldn't have been thinking about the Eugene Water & Electric Board's reservoir atop College Hill.
I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said good fences make good neighbors.
The corollary of the wise saying that good fences make good neighbors is that bad neighbors require good fences.
 
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