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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom my head is always full of something else.

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
Cannot
Book
Something
Ballroom
Always
Full
Head
Books
Talk
Else

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