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1  Nobody saw this person come into the house.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  She regarded me merely as a person in a play.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  The only person unmoved was the girl herself.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  I thought I would do myself the honour of coming round in person.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  You have been the one person in my life who has really influenced my art.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Yes: it is a matter of life and death, Alan, and to more than one person.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  If you only saw him, you would think him the most wonderful person in the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists.
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10  The presence of a third person in the room seemed to give him extraordinary courage.
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11  Your portrait of him has quickened his appreciation of the personal appearance of other people.
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12  I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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13  Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.
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14  You must go down to Richmond at once, see Harden personally, and tell him to send twice as many orchids as I ordered, and to have as few white ones as possible.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  The gallery and pit were fairly full, but the two rows of dingy stalls were quite empty, and there was hardly a person in what I suppose they called the dress-circle.
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16  Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.
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17  In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.
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