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There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

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
Well
Really
Love
Inconsistency
Think
Dissatisfied
Thinking
Fewer
People
Stills
Still
Wells

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