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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

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
Right
Men
Hurry
Shall
Lasts
Last
Often
Come

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