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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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
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Wealth
Proper
Always
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Maid
Boys
Pleasant
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Maids
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Ridiculous
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Fortune
Respectable
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Girls
Narrow
May
Anybody
Sensible

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