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Originally Posted by radleyp
I find it hard to believe that an editor would not recognize the first line of Pride and Prejudice which is one of the most famous openings in all of literature: That this is the case, however, says a good deal about the literary background of editors.
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Well, I'm not a native English speaker, I haven't read much English literature (I still have to read "Pride and Prejudice"), maybe it actually is such an identifiable piece of text as you say... I would recognize the first words of "The Hobbit" or "Don Quixote", though.