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1  His dominant intellectual passion was for science.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
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4  They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
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5  The love that he bore him--for it was really love--had nothing in it that was not noble and intellectual.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that.
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7  He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment.
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8  There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings.
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9  On the contrary, you would probably feel that you were benefiting the human race, or increasing the sum of knowledge in the world, or gratifying intellectual curiosity, or something of that kind.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  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.
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11  But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.
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12  Certainly with hideous iteration the bitten lips of Dorian Gray shaped and reshaped those subtle words that dealt with soul and sense, till he had found in them the full expression, as it were, of his mood, and justified, by intellectual approval, passions that without such justification would still have dominated his temper.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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