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1  "A great many, I fear," she cried.
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2  I make a great difference between people.
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3  It will be a great pity, for it will alter you.
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4  A visit to Treadley would be a great privilege.
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5  It was a distinction, my dear Dorian--a great distinction.
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6  Yes," he continued, "that is one of the great secrets of life.
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7  A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures.
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8  It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.
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9  It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
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10  "I am afraid that your nephew is prejudiced against that great country," he said to Lady Agatha.
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11  It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.
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12  About half-past eight I passed by an absurd little theatre, with great flaring gas-jets and gaudy play-bills.
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13  It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon.
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14  Yes," continued Lord Henry, "that is one of the great secrets of life--to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.
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15  Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.
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16  I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.
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17  The son, who had been his father's secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
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