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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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
Woman
Rude
Death
Equally
Nothing
Folly
Ill
Goldsmith
Tells
Recommended
Lovely
Stoops
Fame
Clearer
Dies
Disagreeable

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