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Selfishness


 A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
  Oscar Wilde

 All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
  Oscar Wilde

 All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption.

 All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
  William Shakespeare

 If you're working to make the playing field fair and level, you're working for the wrong reasons. Work to take the opportunities that arise and use your individual talents to excel at those opportunities.
  Rush Limbaugh

 Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

 Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

 It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 Live for yourself -- there's no one else
More worth living for
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more

 Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
  Andre Maurois

 Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
  Andre Maurois

 Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
  Andre Maurois

 Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

 Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth
  James Allen


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