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Selfishness quotes

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“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” Jane Austen, “Mansfield Park” - 1814

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them—and, that way she missed love.” Agatha Christie, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” - 1920

“PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

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