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1  They commit one mistake, however.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  "I prefer the mistakes of to-day," she answered.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
4  I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
5  She had swallowed something by mistake, some dreadful thing they use at theatres.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
7  But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11