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.

Jane Austen

Mots clés men women marriage classics wives possessiveness bachelorhood single-men

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Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him?

Jane Austen

Mots clés single-men

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