Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

[Baker, John]

        Mieder's interesting and detailed discussion takes the proverb
back to 1846, with much earlier precursors using different language.
The 1859 quotation cited in my original post is included in his
discussion.

John Baker


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Subject: Re: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

See Wolfgang Mieder, "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: The
Sociopolitical Significance of an Ambiguous Proverb," in Mieder,
Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (Ogden:
Utah State UP, 2005), 210-43.

--Charlie

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