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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

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
Thing
Presence
Much
Tongue
Mind
Looked
Hasty
Never
Whose
Slipped
Depends
Varied
Upon
Careless
Felt
Sincerity
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