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Quote by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posse

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

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen

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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. – Jane Austen

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. – Honore de Balzac

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Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. – Charlotte Whitton

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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. – Plato

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