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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

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
Pretension
Respectable
Elegance
Consists
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Whatever
Kind
Tormenting
Men
Pretensions

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