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"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." »Barbara Stanwyck
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"egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." »Frank Leahy
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"Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism." »William James
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"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism." »William James
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"egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool." »Bellamy Brooks
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt
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"The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends." »Charles de Gaulle
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