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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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
Art
Undoubtedly
Sometimes
Meanness
Affinity
Employ
Cunning
Ladies
Arts
Condescend
Bears
Despicable

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