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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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
Nothing
Deceives
Deceiving
Vanity
Prejudice
Often

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