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Examples
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“Mr. Henry James may consider me to be an unclean beast and a tenth-rate cad, but I see myself as a happily married family man.”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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“He called you ‘a fatuous fool,’ Mr. Wilde, ‘a tenth-rate cad,’ ‘an unclean beast.’”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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“Mr. Henry James may consider me to be an unclean beast and a tenth-rate cad, but I see myself as a happily married family man.”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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“He called you ‘a fatuous fool,’ Mr. Wilde, ‘a tenth-rate cad,’ ‘an unclean beast.’”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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“Mr. Henry James may consider me to be an unclean beast and a tenth-rate cad, but I see myself as a happily married family man.”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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“He called you ‘a fatuous fool,’ Mr. Wilde, ‘a tenth-rate cad,’ ‘an unclean beast.’”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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“He called you ‘a fatuous fool,’ Mr. Wilde, ‘a tenth-rate cad,’ ‘an unclean beast.’”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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He commanded a tenth-rate army of 20,000, stole artifacts from the days of the Manchus, and had an opium factory on the grounds of his palace.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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“Mr. Henry James may consider me to be an unclean beast and a tenth-rate cad, but I see myself as a happily married family man.”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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“He called you ‘a fatuous fool,’ Mr. Wilde, ‘a tenth-rate cad,’ ‘an unclean beast.’”
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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