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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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
Reconcile
Defects
Gradually
Hardly
Manner
Personal
Might
Defect
Agreeable

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