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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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
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Please
Women
Work
Unaffected
Every
Feature
Men
Ladies
Features
Rational

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