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she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

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
Give
Several
Tranquillity
Better
Overcoming
Disposed
Human
Degree
Felicity
Humans
Easily
Happily
Giving
Degrees
Spirits
Heart
Hours
Oppressed
Mind
Spirit
Required
Change
Overcome

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