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1  I have not the slightest idea.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
2  He felt that the idea was monstrous.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  He hated the idea of even touching them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  No; I think our ideas are quite different.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  The idea was monstrous, yet he felt afraid.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  I have new passions, new thoughts, new ideas.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  He could not bear the idea of reproaching him any more.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  Even Harry, who was here, who brought me the news, in fact, had no idea what I was going through.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  I must admit that I was rather annoyed at the idea of seeing Shakespeare done in such a wretched hole of a place.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman--always a rash thing to do--he never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  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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13  Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14