“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. ”
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“Please don't applaud. It may irritate your neighbour.”
Receiving a mixed reaction to his speech at the Conservative Party conference, Blackpool (14 October 1981), quoted in John Campbell, Edward Heath (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993), p. 731.
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