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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Steventon
Hampshire
Prejudice
Suffer
Nobody
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Pitied
Always
Ironic
Never
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Complaining
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