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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Steventon
Hampshire
Great
Men
Admiration
Hardly
Suppose
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Objects
Knew

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