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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

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
Think
Office
Thinking
Worth
Post
Age
Posts
Point
Charm
Lives
Letters
Great
Rain
Going
Begin
Never
Lived

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