"Dorian Gray ... never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night."
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 11, p. 106
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