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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

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
Operations
Changes
Wonderful
Human
Humans
Mind
Time

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