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1  My own decision, however, is unalterable.
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2  It was given to him in mistake for his own.
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3  I have unpacked it and put it in the room next to your own.
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4  My own one, I have never loved any one in the world but you.
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5  But my dear Lady Bracknell, the matter is entirely in your own hands.
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6  In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.
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7  Well, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it is let by the year to Lady Bloxham.
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8  The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.
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9  A case of twins that occurred recently in one of the outlying cottages on your own estate.
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10  I beg your pardon, Algy, I suppose I shouldn't talk about your own aunt in that way before you.
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11  She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table.
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12  To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
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13  I remember recommending one to young Lady Lancing, and after three months her own husband did not know her.
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14  Well, my own dear, sweet, loving little darling, I really can't see why you should object to the name of Algernon.
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15  To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.
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16  London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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17  There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt, but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can't quite make out.
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