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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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot

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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. – Edwin Louis Cole

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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. – Germaine Greer

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

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The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. – Rod Parsley

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