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Jane Austen
English novelist, 1775–1817. 1 explained quote.
“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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About Jane Austen
Jane Austen lived most of her life in Hampshire, in a large clergyman’s family, and published six novels, the first four anonymously, between 1811 and 1817.
Her narrators are ironic, so her famous lines often mean the opposite of what they say on the surface. Some of the best-known lines from her books are spoken by characters she is gently mocking.
More lines by Austen
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- “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”Pride and Prejudice (Caroline Bingley), 1813
- “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”Emma, 1815