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1  Yes, Mr. Gray, the gods have been good to you.
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2  But you must not think I don't like good music.
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3  There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray.
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4  I never talk during music--at least, during good music.
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5  My wife is very good at it--much better, in fact, than I am.
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6  Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least, good women have not.
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7  His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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8  I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything.
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9  I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues.
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10  I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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11  "They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris," chuckled Sir Thomas, who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes.
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12  In fact I consider you extremely dangerous, and if anything happens to our good duchess, we shall all look on you as being primarily responsible.
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13  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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14  "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.
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15  Opposite was the Duchess of Harley, a lady of admirable good-nature and good temper, much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
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16  Fortunately for him she had on the other side Lord Faudel, a most intelligent middle-aged mediocrity, as bald as a ministerial statement in the House of Commons, with whom she was conversing in that intensely earnest manner which is the one unpardonable error, as he remarked once himself, that all really good people fall into, and from which none of them ever quite escape.
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17  His father had been our ambassador at Madrid when Isabella was young and Prim unthought of, but had retired from the diplomatic service in a capricious moment of annoyance on not being offered the Embassy at Paris, a post to which he considered that he was fully entitled by reason of his birth, his indolence, the good English of his dispatches, and his inordinate passion for pleasure.
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