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Jane Austen: It is a...

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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.

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813), opening words.
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16 1775-1817), English novelist; She was known as the masterful miniaturist; wrote Pride and Prejudice, 1813; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.


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