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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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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Steventon
Hampshire
Facts
Plain
Nature
Wit
Together
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May
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Repartee
Without
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Blunder
Matter
Hours
Blunders
Half
Striking
Fact
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