It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she…

Jane Austen
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ✨ Jane Austen (2016). Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...), p.1379, Jane Austen
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. ✨ Jane Austen (2016). Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...), p.1379, Jane Austen

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