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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Hampshire
Men
Inconstant
Infidelity
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Woman
Nature

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