"Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned."
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"Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another."
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"If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you."
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"I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk."
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"Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read."
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"I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process."
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"It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters."
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"First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it."
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"A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world."
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"I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self."
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"Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves."
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"I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject."
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"If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough."
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"Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity."
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"It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow."
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"As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them."
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"We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves"
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"It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money."
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"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
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"Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears."
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