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1  "I wish she were ill," he rejoined.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  I don't wish to know anything about them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  I wish you could come to the theatre to-night.
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4  I wish that I had ever had such an experience.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  I shall come with you, Dorian, if you wish it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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6  I wish now that I was not going to Australia at all.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  I don't wish to be unkind, but I can't see you again.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  "I wish it were fin du globe," said Dorian with a sigh.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
9  "I wish I could trust myself," said Lord Henry, laughing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  But I wish you had left word where you had really gone to.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  If you wish me never to look at your picture again, I am content.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  I cannot understand how any one can wish to shame the thing he loves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
13  If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  I am glad he is not, after all--though I wish you chaps would not squabble over the picture.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  Lord Henry is very wicked, and I sometimes wish that I had been; but you are made to be good--you look so good.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  In a mad moment that, even now, I don't know whether I regret or not, I made a wish, perhaps you would call it a prayer.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
17  He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his own beauty might be untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
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