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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

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
Well
Generally
Contract
Mind
Crosses
Barely
Income
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Small
Narrow
Illiberal
Society
Tendency
Perforce
May
Temper
Sour
Live
Tendencies
Inferior
Wells
Cross
Inferiors

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