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live and let live

To live in the way you prefer and let others live as they wish without being bothered by you.

Father scolds Mother because she wears her hair in curlers and Mother scolds Father because he smokes a smelly pipe. Grandfather says it's her hair and his pipe; live and let live.

Compare:

GIVE AND TAKE (1),

LET BYGONES BE BYGONES,

FORGIVE AND FORGET.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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