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1  You don't understand her, Harry.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  I knew that you would understand me.
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3  She doesn't understand how to look after you.
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4  You had made me understand what love really is.
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5  It sounds vain, but you understand what I mean.
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6  "You don't understand me, Harry," answered the artist.
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7  I understand what you mean, and I believe in this girl.
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8  You are speaking about things you don't understand, James.
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9  "I do not understand you," said Sir Thomas, growing rather red.
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10  James Vane hesitated for a moment, not understanding what was meant.
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11  I cannot understand how any one can wish to shame the thing he loves.
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12  What on earth induced her to behave as she did, I never could understand.
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13  "You don't understand what friendship is, Harry," he murmured--"or what enmity is, for that matter.
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14  Its mysteries have all the charm of a flirtation, a woman once told me, and I can quite understand it.
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15  There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.
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16  Oh, there is really very little to tell, Harry," answered the painter; "and I am afraid you will hardly understand it.
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