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Yes, replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, but that was when I first knew her for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

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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