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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. - Th

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

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. – Johann von Goethe

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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. – George V. Higgins

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