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3 December 2004

First sentence of “Pride and Prejudice” in top ten favorite quotations list

Filed under: Jane in the News — Mags @ 2:40 pm

Oxford University Press has issued a list of ten favorite quotations, voted on by the public from a list of 100 compiled from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Five percent of the voters chose the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice, “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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