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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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
Firsts
Planning
Dictated
First
Till
Anna
Giving
Exactly
Cabinet
Kind
Choose
Cabinets
Make
Shall
Presents
Attention
Shown
Mother
Resolve
Thought
Generosity

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