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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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
Discontented
Widows
Marry
Rather
Woman
Doe
Remarriage
Unreasonably

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