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But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

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
Three
Foolish
Young
Questions
Without
Exactly
Pleasing
Thing
Told
Ladies
Every
Pretty
Sisters
Beauty
Regular
Asks
Accomplished
Family
Grown

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