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live and let live

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live and let live

Cliché not to interfere with other people's business or preferences. I don't care what they do! Live and let live, I always say. Your parents are strict. Mine just live and let live.

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live and let live

to accept other people as they are, although they may have a different way of life I firmly believe in live and let live, and if people don't rob, cheat or beat their wives, I have no complaints.

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live and let live

believing that other people should be allowed to live their lives in the way that they want to They seem as a society to have a very live and let live attitude towards issues like gay rights.

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live and let live

Show tolerance for those different from yourself. For example, I'm not going to tell my sister what to do-live and let live, I say. [First half of 1600s]

See also: and, let, live