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1  They had not influenced his nature.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  He has a simple and a beautiful nature.
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3  But you were simple, natural, and affectionate then.
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4  You know yourself, Harry, how independent I am by nature.
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5  Her shallow secret nature was troubled when their eyes met.
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6  She said that he was very earnest and had a beautiful nature.
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7  Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious.
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8  To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
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9  He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions.
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10  There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.
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11  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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12  He had been always enthralled by the methods of natural science, but the ordinary subject-matter of that science had seemed to him trivial and of no import.
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13  Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms.
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14  A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
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15  I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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16  "Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush.
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17  The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions and sensations that seem stronger than themselves, and that they are conscious of sharing with the less highly organized forms of existence.
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