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


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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.
DAVID MCCALLUM
We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.
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COLIN BEAVAN
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE
We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER
You may laugh at people for what they do, but never laugh at what they are.
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We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are sho...
C.S. LEWIS
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GERMANY KENT
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...
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What they do in the big-business world is fine, but there's room for indies [independent registrars]...
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We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (...) There is a lot of r...
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MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN
When love for the Lord and His love for our neighbors / Is what we are into and what we're about, / ...
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brother...
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING
If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbors.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let ...
WILLIAM PENNINGTON
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN
In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of ...
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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old mai...
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And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, o...
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Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE
No one else “makes” us do anything. They can’t make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us ...
CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN
Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now ...
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I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH
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ANUJ SOMANY
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BILL CHANDLER
We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
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What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
ROBERT E. LEE
I think that if we play our style and do what we have to do and make them play our game, we'll be OK...
ALEX VILLALOBOS
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

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JANE AUSTEN
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari...
TRACY CHEVALIER
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and...
JANE AUSTEN
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of orig...
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Our main objective was to keep the folks in the county comfortable. We knew we couldn't make things ...
GARY GALLOWAY
Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do,...
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane ...
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DAVID BINDER
We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them.
GEORGE W. BUSH
No...We wouldn't all do what we did do then...but to live in the moment makes our hindsight grin!
DARRELL CHESTER
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on l...
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Since we do charge for our work, we do need the permit and licenses, but do it not so much for incom...
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Jane has raised the bar for the kinds of equipment we have. We move faster. Our vehicles are kept at...
BILL HOOVER
I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emo...
ALEX KURTZMAN
We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.
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We can do this to help our neighbors to the south,
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The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we ...
ILKIN SANTAK
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID
I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE
Many of these individuals and families may well decide to become our neighbors, ... We need to welco...
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We know Glenwood has good kids. They've had good kids for a long time. We just tried to make our adj...
DAMON WELLS
You are our great sporting heroes, you're legends of sport in our time, we owe you an incredible deb...
GORDON BROWN
We do rotate people in a lot, but everybody knows how hard they have to play. That is an advantage w...
EMILY WESTERBERG
The rich see the opportunity to make money work for them while the poor laugh at them
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
MARY PICKFORD
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emoti...
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I am thrilled for them listening to our concern. It's what we wanted from them. We just want to live...
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It may take us years and years to find our true calling in our life. But one fine day, we eventually...
AVIJEET DAS
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A friend once taught me that we'd all live differently if we could live our lives over, but all we c...
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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
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Till this moment I never knew myself.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...
JANE AUSTEN
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...
JANE AUSTEN
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
JANE AUSTEN
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
JANE AUSTEN
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...
JANE AUSTEN
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN
My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN
One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN
But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN
Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN
You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN
It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN
I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN
Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN
Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN
It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
JANE AUSTEN