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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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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
Admiration
Probably
Ends
Littles
Little
Might
Must
Love
Fever

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