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MARRIED in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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LEARN in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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DRESS in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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STRONG in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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