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1  It was not a mere fancy of his own.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Yes: I should fancy that was his end.
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3  I fancy that the boy will be well off.
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4  Art is always more abstract than we fancy.
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5  And I dare say it is only a fancy of mine.
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6  Just like, I should fancy, and very depressing.
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7  You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong.
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8  I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake.
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9  I have never seen you really and absolutely angry, but I can fancy how delightful you looked.
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10  I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.
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11  The hero of the wonderful novel that had so influenced his life had himself known this curious fancy.
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12  They become more highly organized, and to be highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence.
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13  But perhaps it had been only his fancy that had called vengeance out of the night and set the hideous shapes of punishment before him.
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14  Dorian Gray stepped up on the dais with the air of a young Greek martyr, and made a little moue of discontent to Lord Henry, to whom he had rather taken a fancy.
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15  He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  I fancy that the true explanation is this: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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17  The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young, and catching the mad music of pleasure, wearing, one might fancy, her wine-stained robe and wreath of ivy, danced like a Bacchante over the hills of life, and mocked the slow Silenus for being sober.
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