ve the benefit of fortune, exemplifies this pattern of thinking when she marries Mr. Collins. She tells Elizabeth many times not to be so picky in her choice of husband expresses her opinion about marriage while discussing Jane's And Bingley's relationship with Elizabeth.
             Well, said Charlotte, I wish Jane success with all my heart; and if she were married to him to-morrow, I should think she had as good a chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always contrive to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. (Austen 47).
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