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1  Of the threat she said nothing.
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2  It has nothing to do with our own will.
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3  If she failed there, there was nothing in her.
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4  There was nothing that one could not do with him.
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5  Compared to it there was nothing else of any value.
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6  I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them real.
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7  With your personality there is nothing you could not do.
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8  He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
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9  A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
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10  If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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11  An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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12  I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.
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13  Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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14  The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense.
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15  There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating--people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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16  There is nothing that art cannot express, and I know that the work I have done, since I met Dorian Gray, is good work, is the best work of my life.
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17  The son, who had been his father's secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
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