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Quote by Jane Austen
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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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable. – Jane Austen

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. – Jane Austen

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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves. – Norman Douglas

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