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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

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
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Teasing
Quality
Exaggerate
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Tease
Often
Occasion
May
Belongs
Find
Qualities
Much
Occasions
Good
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Quarreling

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