"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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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."
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