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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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
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Steadiness
Literature
Uncommon
United
Charming
Girl
Resist
Reason
Attraction
World
Requires
Inspiring
Youth
Diffidence

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