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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

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
Disagreeable
Persuasion
Sure
Thing
Going
Always
Men

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