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1  "Eighteen years," said the man.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  I am as happy to-day as you were twenty years ago.
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3  The room looked as if it had not been lived in for years.
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4  You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully.
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5  "Eighteen years," laughed Dorian Gray, with a touch of triumph in his voice.
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6  For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book.
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7  They had been great friends once, five years before--almost inseparable, indeed.
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8  When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older.
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9  This taste enthralled him for years, and, indeed, may be said never to have left him.
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10  She would pray for him, too, and in a few years he would come back quite rich and happy.
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11  As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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12  She is bound to him for three years--at least for two years and eight months--from the present time.
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13  I believe, according to the peerage, it is ten years, but ten years with Monmouth must have been like eternity, with time thrown in.
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14  I was furious with him, and told him that Juliet had been dead for hundreds of years and that her body was lying in a marble tomb in Verona.
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15  He seemed little more than a lad of twenty summers, hardly older, if older indeed at all, than his sister had been when they had parted so many years ago.
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16  After a few years he could not endure to be long out of England, and gave up the villa that he had shared at Trouville with Lord Henry, as well as the little white walled-in house at Algiers where they had more than once spent the winter.
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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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