"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
~ Jane Austen ~












I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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