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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

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
Thing
Every
Love
Fraternal
Worse
Almost
Others
Nothing
Sometimes

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