Happiness in marriage

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Happiness in marriage Marriage

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Charlotte Lucas

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Pride and Prejudice

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 6.

You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Happiness in marriage Marriage

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Table Talk

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Parental Control of Marriage - Marriage of Cousins - Difference of Character, June 10, 1824." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1852.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.