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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. - M

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. – Mme. Roland

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If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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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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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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