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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love it is not my way, or my nature and I do not think I ever shall.

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
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Nature
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