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1  The world belongs to you for a season.
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2  Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.
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3  The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it.
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4  The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.
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5  One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.
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6  The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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7  It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us.
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8  It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.
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9  But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
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10  It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
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11  I sometimes think, Harry, that there are only two eras of any importance in the world's history.
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12  "I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist.
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13  I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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14  It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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15  It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon.
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16  And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.
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17  At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a genial if somewhat rough-mannered old bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him, but who was considered generous by Society as he fed the people who amused him.
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