Good fences make good neighbours: History and significance of an ambiguous proverb

Folklore

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-179

  Mieder, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Department of Greman and Russian ^*

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DOI: 10.1080/0015587032000104202     Document Type: Article

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