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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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Hampshire
Matter
Hours
Blunders
Half
Striking
Fact
Spoken
Facts
Plain
Nature
Wit
Together
Borders
May
Hour
Repartee
Without
Least
Blunder

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