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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

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
Good
Interested
Quarrels
Men
War
Solemn
History
Pope
Cannot
Hardly
Women
Wars
Nothing
Page
Pestilences
Real
Pages
Popes
Every
Kings
Pestilence

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