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1  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing.
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2  The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily.
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3  It is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
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4  This Mr. Bunbury seems to suffer from curiously bad health.
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5  It's the excuse I've always given for your leading such a bad life.
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6  However badly he may have behaved to you in the past he is still your brother.
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7  In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.
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8  You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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9  I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
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10  If it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health, for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's to-night, for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week.
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11  Well, ever since dear Uncle Jack first confessed to us that he had a younger brother who was very wicked and bad, you of course have formed the chief topic of conversation between myself and Miss Prism.
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