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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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
Women
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Men
World
Fortune
Deserve
Large
Certainly
Pretty

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