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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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
Absolutely
Angry
Feeling
Happy
Agitated
Feelings
Trembling
Everything
Infinitely
Thinking
Obliged
Miserable

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