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Nay, cried Bingley, this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Steventon
Hampshire
Foolish
Morning
Night
Remember
Much
Things
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