“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
— Jane Austen, book Pride and Prejudice
Variant: It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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