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Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Sense and Sensibility, ch. 17 [Edward] (1811)
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
In James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, “September 15, 1777” (1791)
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