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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

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
Serious
Thankfulness
Dangerous
Fearless
Went
Enjoyment
Corrective
High
Grateful
Interval
Best
Meditation
Wrought
Everything
Room
Felicity
Rooms
Steadfast
Grew
Intervals

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