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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

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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Steventon
Hampshire
Friend
Shall
Better
Children
Truer
Kinder
Sister
Daughter

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