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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
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Steventon
Hampshire
Laughing
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