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Which famous sentence opens Pride and Prejudice?
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Pride and Prejudice
Colin Firth as Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC TV miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995).
The famous opening sentence of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”12