"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" — Jane Austen

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Source: The Sign of the Four (1890)

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