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Letter "E" » egotist
«If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.»
«Someone said of a very great egotist: `He would burn your house down to cook himself a couple of eggs.'»
«An egotist is a person of low taste-more interested in himself than in me.»
«Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.»
«SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters:Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of peppered roast That's made of you;Wherein you paste the printed gibes That revel round your name, Thinking the laughter of the scribes Attests your fame;Where all the pictures you arrange That comic pencils trace -- Your funny figure and your strange Semitic face --Pray lend it me. Wit I have not, Nor art, but there I'll list The daily drubbings you'd have got Had God a fist.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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«Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me»
«One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people»
«Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Conscience,
Egotism,
Sin,
Vanity
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Keywords:
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« An egotist can never expect anything good. »
«An egotist can never be humble that is why he is seldom blessed even by god.»