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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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
Dearly
Shame
Laugh
Laughing
Love

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