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I can recollect nothing more to say at present perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

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
Nothing
Butter
Good
Deceived
Breakfast
Perhaps
Present
Recollect
Two
Supplied
May
Rolls
Ideas
Assist

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