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1  My dear boy, no woman is a genius.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  In good society that always whitewashes a woman.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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3  I may mention that she was not the woman's only child.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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4  A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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5  When an old woman like myself blushes, it is a very bad sign.
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6  For a moment a hideous sense of humiliation came over the woman.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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7  Beside him hung the portrait of his wife, a pallid, thin-lipped woman in black.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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8  "Never marry a woman with straw-coloured hair, Dorian," he said after a few puffs.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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9  "I don't know how we could manage without him," answered the elder woman querulously.
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10  I want to place her on a pedestal of gold and to see the world worship the woman who is mine.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Its mysteries have all the charm of a flirtation, a woman once told me, and I can quite understand it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  The elder woman grew pale beneath the coarse powder that daubed her cheeks, and her dry lips twitched with a spasm of pain.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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16  And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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17  My dear Dorian," answered Lord Henry, taking a cigarette from his case and producing a gold-latten matchbox, "the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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