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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Hampshire
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Men
Torment
Offended
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Loves
Inspiring
Woman
Another

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