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egoism
«Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.»
Author: Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
| Keywords:
admits, egoism, endeavors, legality, religious ceremony
«The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.»
Author: George Meredith
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
carnival, carnivals, egoism, touchstone, touchstones
«There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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blight, blighted, blights, cloudy, despondency, egoism, hardly a
«The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.»
«The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
autonomous, egoism, reliant, self-reliant
«Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Morality
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egoism, plausibly, self interest, self love, substituted
«No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
egoism, insufferable, regard to, with regard to