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1  I have seen her in every age and in every costume.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  It is one of the great romantic tragedies of the age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
3  These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
6  She had marred him for a moment, if he had wounded her for an age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
7  I shall be of age in less than a year, and then I can do what I like.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
8  I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
9  We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  It might escape the hideousness of sin, but the hideousness of age was in store for it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
11  We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
12  Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
13  They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
14  At last, liveried in the costume of the age, reality entered the room in the shape of a servant to tell the duchess that her carriage was waiting.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
15  Certainly no one looking at Dorian Gray that night could have believed that he had passed through a tragedy as horrible as any tragedy of our age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
16  A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
17  He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
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