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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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
Woman
Tempered
Young
Scarcely
Nothing
Dislike
Good
Contempt
Civil
Object
Mere
Objects
Obliging

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