egotism

• In any case its foundations are laid in vanity and egotism, and that will eventually prove its undoing MADEIRA We lit right out for Madeira, and after a pleasant but uneventful voyage cast anchor in the harbor of Funchal, the capital, in less than nine days The Madeira Islands are owned by Portugal, but the natives all wish they were not and are most anxious to get under Uncle Sam's wing, ŕ la Porto Rico. —  A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel
• An easy egotism, a contented sensualism, may have carried the first comfortably and serenely through their bank-note-lined paradise of commonplace existence. —  Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
• They retain their egotism, and add to it many other egos. —  The Picture of Dorian Gray
• It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded It is an interesting question," said Lord Henry, who found an exquisite pleasure in playing on the lad's unconscious egotism--"an extremely interesting question. —  The Picture of Dorian Gray
• There she was again with the innocent egotism, the gilded and overflowing anarchism, really, of her doubtless quite unwitting but none the less rabid modern note. —  The Finer Grain

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