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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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
Doe
Astonishing
Wells
Post
Well
Posts
Really
Establishment
Thinking
Letters
Thinks
Office
Dispatch
Wonderful
Regularity

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