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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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
Pain
Often
Remembrance
Becomes
Pleasure

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