https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 23 May 2026 14:55:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/austen-jane/63759/ https://wist.info/austen-jane/63759/#respond Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:08:57 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=63759 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 the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1, Opening Lines (1813)
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Mansfield Park, ch. 48 (1814)
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