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You deserve a longer letter than this but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

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
Well
Treat
People
Unhappy
Treats
Letters
Deserve
Fate
Longer
Letter
Wells
Seldom

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