Quote by Arnold Bennett
If egotism means a terrific interest in ones self, egotism is abso

If egotism means a terrific interest in ones self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. – Arnold Bennett

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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett

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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. – Lord Chesterfield

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. – Thomas Carlyle

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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. – Guy Debord

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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