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1  In fact it's perfectly ordinary.
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2  Bunbury is perfectly invaluable.
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3  Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
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4  It's perfectly easy to be cynical.
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5  You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.
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6  Her mother is perfectly unbearable.
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7  Jack looks perfectly furious, and goes to the door.
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8  Besides, I have a perfect right to be christened if I like.
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9  It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.
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10  I know perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson.
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11  Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be extremely great friends.
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12  My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful.
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13  In the third place, I know perfectly well whom she will place me next to, to-night.
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14  The sprinkling, and, indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice.
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15  The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.
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16  Well, to speak with perfect candour, Cecily, I wish that you were fully forty-two, and more than usually plain for your age.
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17  I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
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