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100 Best First Lines from Novels
1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. A man's fortune is like a fish's, and a woman's a fish's tail: it may be small, but it has great power. —Alice Latham, Mr. Pestilence (1857)
4. I always feel uneasy when I am present before your tribunal of opinion. —John Ruskin, Pride and Prejudice (1825)
5. I would rather eat a dog than drink a glass of water: because the two are so far from one another. —Mark Twain, On Being Old (1894)
6. oe ᴛqu ᴥᴇ. —Benjamin Franklin, The Federalist Paper No. 27 (1787)
7. I always like the people in the hills — John Maynard Keynes, In Search of Superstition (1925)
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