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How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a mans self to himself!

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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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. – Charles Lamb

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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. – Charles Lamb

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

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

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