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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

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
Opinion
Change
Anything
Tolerably
Time
Sensibility
Life
Opinions
Fixed
Likely
Hear

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