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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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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Feelings
Suffered
Thinking
Cannot
Judge
May
Judging
Wells
Deal
Well
Deals
Great
Sports
Men
Woman
Love
Often

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