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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

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
Intervals
Grateful
Meditation
Serious
Dangerous
Best
Everything
Corrective
Interval

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