Statistics for Famous First Lines of Novels #1

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First Line	Novel	% Correct
Call Me Ishmael.	Moby Dick	92%
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen	Nineteen Eighty-Four	87%
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	84%
All children, except one, grow up.	Peter Pan	80%
Itis a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.	Pride and Prejudice	72%
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again	Rebecca	50%
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Anna Karenina	46%
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.	Jane Eyre	28%
It was love at first sight	Catch-22	17%
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.	The Go-Between	13%