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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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
Thinking
Women
Fortune
Pleasantest
Wells
However
Honourable
Without
Objects
Matrimony
Well
Marriage
Provision
Must
Either
Uncertain
Giving
Small
Highly
Always
Happiness
Educated
Men
Young
Object
Preservative

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