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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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I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. – 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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As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller

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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg

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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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