Oscar Wilde : The Picture of Dorian Gray

Then he looked at Lord Henry. "Dorian Gray is my dearest  friend,' he said. "'He has a simple and a beautiful nature. Your aunt  was quite right in what she said of him. Don't spoil him for me.  Don't try to influence him. Your  influence would be bad. The world  is wide, and has many marvellous  people in it. Don't take away from  me the one person that makes life  absolutely lovely to me, and that  gives to my art whatever wonder  or charm it possesses. Mind,  Harry, I trust you." He spoke very  slowly, and the words seemed  wrung out of him almost against  his will.