Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, .

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows

Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream Within a Dream

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore