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

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

Jane Austen
Funny, Sports, Laughter
Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Jane Austen
Girl, Sports, Boys
Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen
Love, Sports, Men
Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.699, Wordsworth Editions

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Jane Austen
Sports, Neighbor, Reviews

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