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A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Emma in Emma, ch. 10 (1816).

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