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Pride and Prejudice, opening

Author: Jane Austen Year: 1813 Length: 375 characters Difficulty: medium Public domain

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

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Austen opens her best known novel with a claim she spends the rest of the book taking apart.

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Long words with doubled letters, useful for spotting which finger drops a repeat.

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