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But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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