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I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A crimin...

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God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensu...

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This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning an...

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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

How thoroughly the chimps and bonobos have erased the list of purported human distinctions!-self-awa...

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National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means...

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Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying ...

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Connie WillisThe Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it some...

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She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...

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