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1  It is very romantic to be in love.
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2  I really don't see anything romantic in proposing.
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3  When one is in the country one amuses other people.
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4  Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street.
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5  The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.
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6  It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private.
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7  I may tell you candidly that the place is not in Shropshire.
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8  You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life.
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9  Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with.
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10  That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.
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11  I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.
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12  Bring me that cigarette case Mr. Worthing left in the smoking-room the last time he dined here.
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13  When one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects.
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14  Well, my name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the country.
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15  Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian to his grand-daughter, Miss Cecily Cardew.
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16  I'll reveal to you the meaning of that incomparable expression as soon as you are kind enough to inform me why you are Ernest in town and Jack in the country.
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17  Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from motives of respect that you could not possibly appreciate, lives at my place in the country under the charge of her admirable governess, Miss Prism.
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