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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable that one false step involves her in endless ruin that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

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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Ruins
Loss
Reputation
Irretrievable
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Prejudice
Brittle
Virtue
False
Undeserving
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Guarded
Beautiful
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Behaviour
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Female
Ruin
Much
Sex
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