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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

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
Excellence
Foundation
Sex
Taste
Pretty
Power
Sexes
Every
Fairly
Divided

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