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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
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Steventon
Hampshire
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Enjoyment
Ease
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