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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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
Love
Persuasion
Suffered
Unless
Suffering
Less
Place
Doe
Nothing

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