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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laug

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen

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. . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study? – Jane Austen

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. – Jane Austen

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Good fences make good neighbors. – Robert Frost

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