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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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
Proverb
Rooms
Unwilling
Speak
Handed
Whole
Posterity
Something
Disposition
Unsocial
Expect
Taciturn
Unless
Amaze
Room

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