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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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
London
Healthy
Nobody
Truth
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Londoners
Sickly
Season
Seasons

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