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Jane Austen: For what do...

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

Source: Mr. Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, ch. 57 (1813).
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16 1775-1817), English novelist; She was known as the masterful miniaturist; wrote Pride and Prejudice, 1813; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.


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