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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
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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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. – Thomas Carlyle

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An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! – Ambrose Bierce

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Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. – Diana Black

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

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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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