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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen

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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor. – G. K. Chesterton

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Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. – Confucius

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