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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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
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Three
Two
Tormented
Able
Worthwhile
Wells
Sake
Well
Rest
Years
Life
Reading

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