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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

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
Never
Value
Lose
Loses
Resignation
Eyes
Observed
Values
Somewhat
Eye
Denied
Perfect
Begins
Often
Blessing

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