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Quote by Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not i

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. – Jane Austen

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen

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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. – Jane Austen

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. – Jane Austen

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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Ive given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. – Oscar Levant

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How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a mans self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, – Charles Lamb

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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. – Hailliard

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