Quote by Charles Lamb
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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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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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. – Charles Lamb

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