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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

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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Hampshire
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Men
Proudest
World
Disagreeable
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