“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
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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Jane Austen 477
English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
Source: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 2, “Pointing the Finger” (p. 32)
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Verse VI.10
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