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Marianne was silent it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
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
Feels
Trivial
Occasion
Sensibility
Occasions
Silent
However
Impossible
Feel
Marianne
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