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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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
Dress
Dresses
Literature
Solicitude
Times
Frivolous
Often
Excessive
Destroys
Distinction
Aim

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