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

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