Jane Austen Quotes About Wife
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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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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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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
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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. 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 as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
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