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English Original
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Run through AltaVista's Babelfish, translating from English to Spanish to English to Spanish, until reaching stasis. HyperSpanish?
Universal recognized of the truth it is, like of single man in the possession of a good fortune, must be internal desires of a wife. In spite of little they know it that the sensations or the opinions that such man nay is in his first one which he incorporates a vicinity, this truth are so elbow fixed to the minds of the surrounding families, who consider it have taste of the legitimate characteristic of some or another one of the daughters of the heir
HyperGerman:
It is confirmed truth, the one individual man in the possession of a luck, disturbance within its desires of a woman. However small conserved goods, within it to the way an inside to a way to these a man, who to the surplus in the morning in such a way to the way an inside, so that from the feelings the containers dig also or, to the opinions it, which are surplus its first you, possible coming into neighbourhood, this truth in the understanding of the surrounding families as this well-being place that, it cube, which specifies certified characteristic you a way of approx.. in a formed way in a way or as others its daughter meetings also inward
HyperFrench:
It is a universally identified truth, that a simple man in possession of a good fortune, must be interior want of a wife. However little known the feelings or the sights of such a man can be on his first writing a proximity, they these truth so good is fixed in the spirits of the surrounding families, which one considers with him with him the legitimate property of hard or others their daughters.
HyperJapanese (each cycle was adding more and more structure, and getting more and more philosophical... I gave up before reaching stasis):
Those which agree to the fortunate person of the wife of the single human? Furthermore finishing, the thing of the uniform of phenomenon of thing phenomenon of the thing like _ thing, do those of our our possession ones do the fact that the thing namely average it is called? Perhaps, in regard to consideration thick Seki it is justice of this truth daughter in regard to Seki, it is? The headquarters of thing of decorative style series 1 of truth gazing/hoping of those our things of universalness the fact that it is there should be convinced, it is other than neighborhood? Knowledge, how small human? Opposite side and quality or, or how or is that enormous thing start? The place of opinion, being abnormal, courtesy we should feel Seki which is healthy fixing? Therefore as for thing are phenomenon of thing and thing of possession ones liked those of thing how? What of evidence of 1st thing?
HyperItalian (cycling some articles but otherwise static... probably the most comprehensible version)
Universal recognized of the truth it is, that one a single man in possession of good fortune, must be to the inner part of desires of a moglie. However little known the sensibility or the points of the point of view of such man it can in the first place be on the relative which it records in the vicinities, this truth therefore is enslaved slowly in the minds of the surrounding families, than the legitimate property approximately or other of their daughters is considered.

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