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1  My dear boy, no woman is a genius.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
2  This one is little more than a boy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
3  I fancy that the boy will be well off.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  My dear boy, you are really beginning to moralize.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
5  He looked like a boy who had been tired out with play, or study.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
6  You are foolish, Jim, utterly foolish; a bad-tempered boy, that is all.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
7  Basil, my dear boy, puts everything that is charming in him into his work.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  My dear boy," said Lord Henry, smiling, "anybody can be good in the country.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  You look exactly the same wonderful boy who, day after day, used to come down to my studio to sit for his picture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  I have watched her wandering through the forest of Arden, disguised as a pretty boy in hose and doublet and dainty cap.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  Years ago, when I was a boy," said Dorian Gray, crushing the flower in his hand, "you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  There was the huge Italian cassone, with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
15  A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  My dear boy, they have only been talking about it for six weeks, and the British public are really not equal to the mental strain of having more than one topic every three months.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
17  "Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy," said the painter, deep in his work and conscious only that a look had come into the lad's face that he had never seen there before.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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