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1  What happened was simply this.
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2  You are simply jealous and unkind.
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3  I simply want to see the place--that is all.
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4  It was simply the expression that had altered.
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5  But she seems to me to be simply callous and cold.
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6  She said quite simply to me, 'You look more like a prince.'
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7  "The story is simply this," said the painter after some time.
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8  Harry," he said, "Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art.
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9  "They are both simply forms of imitation," remarked Lord Henry.
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10  It is simply disgraceful of your servant hiding my work like that.
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11  It is simply expression, as Harry says, that gives reality to things.
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12  It seems to me to be simply like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play.
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13  I have simply worshipped pianists--two at a time, sometimes, Harry tells me.
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14  If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect.
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15  Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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16  But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or Cyril Tourneur.
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17  "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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