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BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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House
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Wife
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Nothing
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Detailed explanation-1: -The opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice-“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”-establishes the centrality of an advantageous marriage, a fundamental social value of Regency England.
Detailed explanation-2: -The phrase, ‘a truth universally acknowledged’, was a common one in 18th-century texts of all kinds, from the political and religious to the historical and philosophical. The phrase, ‘acknowledged truth’, was used to try convince readers that everyone believed such and such a thing.
Detailed explanation-3: -“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.” “Till this moment I never knew myself.” “My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”