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anna karenina
happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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a tale of two cities
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
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gone with the wind
scarlett o'hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the tarleton twins were.
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alice in wonderland
alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
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a prayer for owen meany
i am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person i ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason i believe in god; i am a christian because of owen meany.
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monaco
ours is not a race between men; it is a race between mankind and nature.
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david copperfield
whether i shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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peter pan
all children, except one, grow up.
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