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1  It is the finest portrait of modern times.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Yes; there is really no end to the consolations that women find in modern life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Crudely as it had been told to him, it had yet stirred him by its suggestion of a strange, almost modern romance.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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