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I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

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
Separate
Esteem
Known
Never
Love

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