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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

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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
Driving
Poetry
Wonder
Away
Firsts
Bennet
First
Efficacy
Love
Elizabeth
Discovered

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