You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Ers — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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