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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope 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
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Always
Failure
Flies
Pay
Occurs
Present
Expecting
Though
Temper
Hope
Hopes
Doe
Depression
Ever
Begins
Sanguine
Good
Soon
Proportionate

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