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By Jane Austen
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 (first edition, three volumes), 1813 · Volume I, chapter I, p. 1
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- Internet Archive (University of Alberta copy of the first edition, London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1813)
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The opening sentence of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, as printed in the first edition (London: T. Egerton, 1813). The narrator speaks. Many modern editions leave out the comma after "fortune".