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1  I adore it, but I am afraid of it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  I grew afraid and turned to quit the room.
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3  People are afraid of themselves, nowadays.
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4  But I am afraid I cannot claim my theory as my own.
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5  But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.
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6  But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid.
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7  You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
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8  "I am afraid it is not Harry, Mr. Gray," answered a shrill voice.
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9  Dorian smiled and shook his head: "I am afraid I don't think so, Lady Henry."
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10  The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.
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11  "I am afraid that your nephew is prejudiced against that great country," he said to Lady Agatha.
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12  There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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13  "I am afraid I must be going," exclaimed Lady Henry, breaking an awkward silence with her silly sudden laugh.
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14  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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15  She was extremely annoyed at the tone he had adopted with her, and there was something in his look that had made her feel afraid.
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16  We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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17  He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
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