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1  My dear fellow, I am so sorry.
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2  Poets are not so scrupulous as you are.
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3  Perhaps it was not so reckless, after all.
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4  It was so unlike Dorian to speak like that.
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5  I have got to work up this background, so I will join you later on.
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6  That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is.
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7  It was not conscience that made me do so: it was a sort of cowardice.
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8  It is so tedious a subject that one would have to talk seriously about it.
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9  I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.
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10  There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself.
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11  Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
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12  He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward.
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13  In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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14  As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.
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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  Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
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17  In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.
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