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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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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Steventon
Hampshire
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Friendship
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Literature
Friends
Business
Money
Jane
Doe
Hardly
May
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