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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possesion of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Nineteen eighty-four, George Orwell
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"It was love at first sight."
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
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"The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home."
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
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"'Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
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"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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"Call me Ishmael."
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
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"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel."
Neuromancer, William Gibson
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"Sophie couldn't sleep. A brilliant moonbeam was slanting through a gap in the curtains."
BFG, Roald Dahl
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"Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is wher I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like."
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
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"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
Middlemarch, George Eliot
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"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy."
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
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"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish."
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
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"Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space."
Cat's Eye, Margaret Attwood
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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