live and let live

Example Sentences

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“Caw! Hoo! Ruff! The little one—Beowulf, is it?—sketched maps of the forest that showed nooks and crannies Ashton himself had never heard of. Strange fellow, that Ashton. An odd duck. But he’ll be my son-in-law if all goes well, so live and let live, I say.”

From Literature

She said people should "live and let live" and look after each other.

From BBC

When big cities were mentioned at all, Aldean adopted the “live and let live” attitude of forebears like Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive.”

From Salon

And that’s when I get really upset, like we really need to do a lot of education on anthropomorphizing, on just live and let live, and step back.

From Salon

“I’m all about ‘live and let live,’” she said.

From Los Angeles Times