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1  You look as if your name was Ernest.
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2  You behave as if you were married to her already.
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3  Upon my word, if I thought that, I'd shoot myself.
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4  Well, if you want to know, Cecily happens to be my aunt.
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5  My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist.
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6  No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed.
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7  Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were going to eat it all.
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8  Lady Bracknell looks vaguely about as if she could not understand what the noise was.
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9  Now, my dear boy, if we want to get a good table at Willis's, we really must go and dress.
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10  I'm sorry if we are a little late, Algernon, but I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury.
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11  You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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12  But I'll run over the programme I've drawn out, if you will kindly come into the next room for a moment.
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13  The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.
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14  I'll speak to Bunbury, Aunt Augusta, if he is still conscious, and I think I can promise you he'll be all right by Saturday.
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15  I'll keep this as a proof that your name is Ernest if ever you attempt to deny it to me, or to Gwendolen, or to any one else.
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16  Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury.
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17  I should be much obliged if you would ask Mr. Bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on Saturday, for I rely on you to arrange my music for me.
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