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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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
May
Large
Myrtle
Best
Certainly
Lament
Ever
Sort
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Feel
Heard
Turkeys
Feels
Rich
Turkey
Mean
Happiness
Recipes
Part
Secure
Anything
Income

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