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Marriage Quotes by Jane Austen
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set…
- Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
- The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
- It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.
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