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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

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
Proportion
Impulse
Opinion
Feeling
Feelings
Reason
Exertion
Every
Guided
Always
Required

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