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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational 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
May
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Giving
Smirk
Rational
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