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1  I have no doubt about that, dear Algy.
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2  Yes, but you must be serious about it.
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3  That's all that can be said about land.
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4  Nothing has been said at all about marriage.
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5  I hate people who are not serious about meals.
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6  There's such a lot of beastly competition about.
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7  Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing.
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8  But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal.
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9  You are absurdly careless about sending out invitations.
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10  I have been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard about it.
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11  My dear fellow, there is nothing improbable about my explanation at all.
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12  Lady Bracknell looks vaguely about as if she could not understand what the noise was.
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13  Personally, darling, to speak quite candidly, I don't much care about the name of Ernest.
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14  I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money.
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15  Mamma has a way of coming back suddenly into a room that I have often had to speak to her about.
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16  Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.
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17  Besides, now that I know you to be a confirmed Bunburyist I naturally want to talk to you about Bunburying.
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