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Of this she was perfectly unaware to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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
Enough
Made
Unaware
Men
Agreeable
Handsome
Nowhere
Perfectly
Dance
Thought

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