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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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
Truth
Seldom
Doe
Belong
Littles
Honesty
Little
Complete
Human
Inspiring
Humans
Relationship
Disclosure
Something
Happen
Disguised
Happens
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