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Oscar Wilde
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| "Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a
decent living is remote from greed." | |
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Channing Pollock
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| "Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an
overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them
at all." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and
hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion
to change." | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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| "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." | |
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Frank Leahy
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| "Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me." | |
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Ambrose Bierce
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| "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who
want to feel important. They don"t mean to do harm but the harm does not
interest them." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to
which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often
unrequited." | |
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Anthony Dymoke Powell
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| "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than
he imagines." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he
did yesterday." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. ? If you
are all wrapped up in yourself, you make a very small package." | |
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Unknown
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| "If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you make a very small
package." | |
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Proverb
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| "Much outcry, little outcome." | |
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Aesop
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| "Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his
body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or
ridiculous egotism." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full
fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his
beggarly condition." | |
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Jeremy Taylor
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| "No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about
himself." | |
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Anthony Trollope
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| "Self?loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as
self?neglecting." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of
none." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "The worst cliques are those which consist of one man." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the
effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the
effect he produces on himself." | |
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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| "We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don"t
care for." | |
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Marie L. von Ebner-Eschenbach
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| "We are so vain that we even care for the opinions of those we don"t
care for." | |
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Marie L. von Erner-Eschenbach
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| "We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not speak of ourselves
at all." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss;
his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most
mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and
suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities." | |
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David Hume
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