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1  You are certainly my best friend.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  It belonged to Basil's best period.
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3  It is the best thing I have ever done.
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4  Yet he thought it best to be on his guard.
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5  The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.
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6  He sighed and told her to manage things as she thought best.
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7  He gave me everything I wanted, including your best gold-tipped cigarettes.
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8  Oh, Basil is the best of fellows, but he seems to me to be just a bit of a Philistine.
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9  If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied.
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10  "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry languidly.
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11  I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question--simple curiosity.
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12  "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one," said the young lord, plucking another daisy.
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13  Georges Petit is going to collect all my best pictures for a special exhibition in the Rue de Seze, which will open the first week in October.
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14  There is nothing that art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life.
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15  Harry, I can't quarrel with my two best friends at once, but between you both you have made me hate the finest piece of work I have ever done, and I will destroy it.
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16  Next to her sat, on her right, Sir Thomas Burdon, a Radical member of Parliament, who followed his leader in public life and in private life followed the best cooks, dining with the Tories and thinking with the Liberals, in accordance with a wise and well-known rule.
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