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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
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Songs
Something
Perhaps
Men
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Talk
Thinking
Upon
Fickleness
Life
Woman
Inconstancy
Song
Proverbs
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