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The GOOD die young
1697
Character of Dr. Annesley
3
The best of Men cannot suspend their Fate; The Good die early, and the Bad die late.
1814
Excursion
I. 27
The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
1852
Clovernook
39
Sarah .. was dead .. aged nineteen years … The old truth was again reasserted .. in the often repeated verse which followed, that the good die young.
1979
Love & Land Beyond
V.
The good do die young. That's why people like you and me are left to grow old.
1987
Trouble of Fools
v.
‘Live hard, die young,’ I said. .. ‘You got it wrong, Carlotta,’ Mooney said.‘I learned it in school. It's “Only the good die young.” Before they get a chance to fool around.’
death
;
youth
He is a GOOD dog who goes to church
1826
Woodstock
I. i
Bevis .. fell under the proverb which avers, ‘He is a good dog which goes to church’; for .. he behaved himself .. decorously.
a
1895
My Confidences
(1896) 44
Tis said, by men of deep research, He's a good dog who goes to church.
conduct
GOOD fences make good neighbours
1640
Letter
in
Winthrop Papers
(1944) IV. 282
A good fence helpeth to keepe peace between neighbours; but let vs take heed that we make not a high stone wall, to keepe vs from meeting.
1815
Modern Chivalry
(rev. ed.) IV. II. xiii.
I was always with him [Jefferson] in his apprehensions of John Bull … Good fences restrain fencebreaking beasts, and .. preserve good neighbourhoods.
1914
North of Boston
12
My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’
1978
Throwback
x.
‘Hadn't you better go and investigate?’.. Lockhart shook his head. ‘Strong fences make good neighbours.’
1995
Washington Times
19 Apr. A3
‘Good fences make good neighbors,’ Justice Scalia said, invoking poet Robert Frost to support his defense of the separation of powers.
harmony
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neighbours
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