100 Best First Lines from Novels

Interesting. The lines below are the ones that I like. The lines in italics are books I have read.
1. Call me Ishmael. ?Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ?Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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