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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
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Seeing
Literature
Doe
Nothing
Lively
Mind
Ease
Inspiring

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