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1  Music had stirred him like that.
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2  I like to find out people for myself.
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3  It is like surrendering a part of them.
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4  Indeed, I should be sorry to look like him.
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5  The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation.
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6  When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one.
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7  The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
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8  They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own.
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9  Oh, something like, 'Charming boy--poor dear mother and I absolutely inseparable.'
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10  It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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11  I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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12  As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.
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13  A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
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14  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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15  Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won't like his tone of colour, or something.
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16  There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.
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17  "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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