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1  Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray.
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2  He shall never know anything about it.
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3  My aunt has often spoken to me about you.
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4  I don't think there will be any difficulty about that.
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5  And I don't think it really matters about your not being there.
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6  It is so tedious a subject that one would have to talk seriously about it.
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7  There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself.
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8  I promised to go to a club in Whitechapel with her last Tuesday, and I really forgot all about it.
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9  And now, Dorian, get up on the platform, and don't move about too much, or pay any attention to what Lord Henry says.
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10  I at once pictured to myself a creature with spectacles and lank hair, horribly freckled, and tramping about on huge feet.
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11  It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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12  "I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry," said Basil Hallward, strolling towards the door that led into the garden.
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13  There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings.
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14  As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.
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15  Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.
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16  I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.
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17  Had he gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses.
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