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1  You have a wonderful influence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Art has no influence upon action.
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3  They had not influenced his nature.
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4  You have a curious influence over me.
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5  I did not want any external influence in my life.
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6  There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray.
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7  Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.
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8  There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence.
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9  For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.
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10  He was dimly conscious that entirely fresh influences were at work within him.
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11  Dorian, from the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me.
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12  Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.
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13  Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.
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14  Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.
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15  His unreal and selfish love would yield to some higher influence, would be transformed into some nobler passion, and the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, and conscience to others, and the fear of God to us all.
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16  He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so; and that of the lives that had crossed his own, it had been the fairest and the most full of promise that he had brought to shame.
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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.
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