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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

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
Well
Matters
Matter
Taste
Sort
Quite
Noises
Everybody
Distressing
Rather
Quantity
Sound
Noise
Wells
Sounds

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