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One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

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
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