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

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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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