Opening Line
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Book
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
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A tale of Two Cities
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"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."
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War and Peace
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"Call me Ishmael."
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Moby Dick
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
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1984
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"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene..."
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Romeo and Juliet
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"They shoot the white girl first."
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Paradise
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"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."
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The Old Man and the Sea
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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."
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The Great Gatsby
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"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's secret citadel."
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The Odyssey
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"It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest..."
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The Jungle Book
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“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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“When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
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Anna Karenina
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“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”
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Little Women
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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Pride and Prejudice
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''Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago..."
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Don Quixote
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