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Live and let live

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To be tolerant; to enjoy the pleasures and opportunities which life offers and to allow others to do the same. idiomatic

    ""Hout, neighbour," said Mrs. Howden, "we suld live and let live—we hae been young oursells, and we are no aye to judge the warst when lads and lasses forgather.""

Etymology

Possibly a calque of Dutch leven en laten leven, which was mentioned by Gerard de Malynes in a 1622 book about trade law (in the then-current spelling leuen ende laeten leuen).

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