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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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
Inspiring
Weak
Produce
Head
Sort
Mischief
Working
Jane
Every
Produces
Vanity

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