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Do not give way to useless alarm though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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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Useless
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Worst
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Certain
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