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1  He hated his mother's affectations.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
2  They affect us just as vulgarity affects us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  They affect us just as vulgarity affects us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Pure family affection, I assure you, Uncle George.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  And yet I must admit that this thing that has happened does not affect me as it should.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  You go to hospitals and dead-houses, and the horrors that you do there don't affect you.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  The selenite waxed and waned with the moon, and the meloceus, that discovers thieves, could be affected only by the blood of kids.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Yet, when her arms were flung round his neck, and her fingers strayed through his hair, he softened and kissed her with real affection.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Considerable sympathy was expressed for the mother of the deceased, who was greatly affected during the giving of her own evidence, and that of Dr. Birrell, who had made the post-mortem examination of the deceased.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  His mode of dressing, and the particular styles that from time to time he affected, had their marked influence on the young exquisites of the Mayfair balls and Pall Mall club windows, who copied him in everything that he did, and tried to reproduce the accidental charm of his graceful, though to him only half-serious, fopperies.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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