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Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic...

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or ...

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He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at onc...

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Heywood BrounSeeing Things at Night

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish day...

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The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of para...

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John DerbyshireWe Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much long...

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Nothing is more to me than myself.

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortga...

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Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but ...

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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...

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No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the o...

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You are quite wrong about him," Felix had said. "He has not been atan English school, or English uni...

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Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others ...

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