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Old 12-30-2008, 12:25 PM   #116
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Originally Posted by radleyp View Post
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.
From memory:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

There's no way they read his manuscripts, the more I think about it.
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