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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of 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
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Mind
Unworthy
Men
Appeared
Disposition
Dislike
Young
Take
Real
Different
Liberality

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