Words Worth Noting - February 15, 2025

“Jane Austen’s wonderful quip: ‘For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?’”

Mark Johnson in Gilbert! The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #4 (March/April 2024) [It turns out to be the long-suffering father of the Bennett girls in Pride and Prejudice]