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1  They have the charm of being fashionable.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  Lord Henry had the charm of being very dangerous.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes, said Lord Henry.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Yet these whispered scandals only increased in the eyes of many his strange and dangerous charm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  The bezoar, that was found in the heart of the Arabian deer, was a charm that could cure the plague.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Its mysteries have all the charm of a flirtation, a woman once told me, and I can quite understand it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  It was some consolation that Harry was to be there, and when the door opened and he heard his slow musical voice lending charm to some insincere apology, he ceased to feel bored.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  Some love might come across his life, and purify him, and shield him from those sins that seemed to be already stirring in spirit and in flesh--those curious unpictured sins whose very mystery lent them their subtlety and their charm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  Once or twice every month during the winter, and on each Wednesday evening while the season lasted, he would throw open to the world his beautiful house and have the most celebrated musicians of the day to charm his guests with the wonders of their art.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
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17  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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