«Pride and Prejudice / Гордость и предубеждение» kitabından alıntılar, sayfa 2

honour your circumspection

of three-and-twenty years

Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. Her

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