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Daughter Quote by Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man…” quote by Jane Austen
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.”

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