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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

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
Woman
Best
Every
Men
Marry
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Fate

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