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1  But we never get back our youth.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  They get all their dresses in Paris.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  It is the only way I get to know of them.
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4  The wan mirrors get back their mimic life.
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5  Then we must get her out of the Jew's hands.
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6  Dorian, you mustn't let this thing get on your nerves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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8  I must get it arranged and put straight before you go into it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  I want you to get rid of the dreadful people you associate with.
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10  Yes; it is very tragic, of course, but you must not get yourself mixed up in it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  Mr. Isaacs has advanced us fifty pounds to pay off our debts and to get a proper outfit for James.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it, said Lord Henry.
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13  And now, Dorian, get up on the platform, and don't move about too much, or pay any attention to what Lord Henry says.
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14  Of course, she would fall in love with him, and he with her, and they would get married, and come home, and live in an immense house in London.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  For weeks he would not go there, would forget the hideous painted thing, and get back his light heart, his wonderful joyousness, his passionate absorption in mere existence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  He remembered that Lord Henry had said to him once, half seriously and half in jest, "If you want to have a strange quarter of an hour, get Basil to tell you why he won't exhibit your picture."
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17  She had proved an excellent wife to one of our most tedious ambassadors, and having buried her husband properly in a marble mausoleum, which she had herself designed, and married off her daughters to some rich, rather elderly men, she devoted herself now to the pleasures of French fiction, French cookery, and French esprit when she could get it.
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