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Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure

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

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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. – Henry Ward Beecher

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