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1  She is more than an individual.
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2  Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray.
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3  We don't want him any more, Mother.
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4  It made him a more interesting study.
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5  I am no more to you than a green bronze figure.
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6  But he is much more to me than a model or a sitter.
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7  It posed the lad, made him more perfect, as it were.
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8  She said quite simply to me, 'You look more like a prince.'
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9  The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look.
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10  He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
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11  The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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12  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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13  "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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14  The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
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15  The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
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16  When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
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17  What there was in it of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to the lad himself to be remote from sense, and was for that very reason all the more dangerous.
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