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1  The plain women are very useful.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  You used to stir my imagination.
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3  Rouge and esprit used to go together.
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4  She used to wonder if he suspected anything.
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5  They know how useful passion is for publication.
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6  I myself used to receive many bouquets at one time.
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7  Our fathers used to like that sort of piece, I believe.
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8  "I want the Dorian Gray I used to paint," said the artist sadly.
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9  I myself used to have literary ambitions, but I gave them up long ago.
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10  You are like one of the heroes of those silly melodramas Mother used to be so fond of acting in.
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11  They were horrid places, where men got intoxicated, and shot each other in bar-rooms, and used bad language.
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12  The Queen used to ask me about the English noble who was always quarrelling with the cabmen about their fares.
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13  You look exactly the same wonderful boy who, day after day, used to come down to my studio to sit for his picture.
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14  However, whatever was my motive--and it may have been pride, for I used to be very proud--I certainly struggled to the door.
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15  "I don't think I shall send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford.
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16  As I lounged in the park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at every one who passed me and wonder, with a mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led.
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17  The elaborate character of the frame had made the picture extremely bulky, and now and then, in spite of the obsequious protests of Mr. Hubbard, who had the true tradesman's spirited dislike of seeing a gentleman doing anything useful, Dorian put his hand to it so as to help them.
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