As my chosen GR focus is JA's use of language and literary techniques in P&P, I think that it is appropriate to spend some time thinking about the famous first sentence of P&P: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife" (ch. 1).

"It is a truth universally acknowledged" - I have seen this quote employed on everything from advertisements to newspaper headlines and even medical papers on "Infliximab in extrapulmonary sarcoidosis" (here's a quote: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a new therapy with exciting prospects must be in want of placebocontrolled evaluation", from http://erj.ersjournals.com/cgi/reprint/31/6/1148.pdf). There are two people in my family who are in the medical profession - I'll have to ask them if they spotted the Austen reference in that journal about pulmonary ailments!