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7 Reasons These Opening Lines Are Not Classics

7 Reasons These Opening Lines Are Not Classics

  It is said that the following seven opening lines are some of the best written. I disagree. In fact I believe them to be vastly overrated. This is why. 1.  “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen. 1813. I think one only has to look at the case of Sir Elton John to realise that this is not a truth universally...

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