Jane Austen Quotes on Marriage

4 quotes

  1. Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor-which is one very strong argument in favour of Matrimony...

  2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  3. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  4. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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