egotist

• “In his secret heart the egotist is a self-despiser.”

  The Glory of the Trenches

• “I suppose that the egotist is the man who regards the world as a setting for himself, as opposed to the man who realizes that he is”

  From a College Window

• “Wright rhymes "exist" with "egotist" - the very quality of human existence creates an ego that leads us to disbelieve our own being and that of those around us.”

  English-writing Israeli-bloggers

• “It's not my fault he's too cheap to fund a proper office, but his snide, arrogant denials show exactly what kind of egotist he is.”

  Archive 2004-06-01

• “The error was caused by my reliance on a dictionary which gave such misleading definitions of these two words that "egotist" seemed closer to the meaning I intended (Webster's Daily Use Dictionary, 1933).”

  The Fountainhead

• “The error is semantic: the use of the word "egotist" in Roark's courtroom speech, while actually the word should have been "egoist.”

  The Fountainhead

• “He has been described as an "egotist," but I challenge the description.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

• “Those essays, as happens with epoch-marking books, were themselves a life, the power which [84] makes them what they are having been accumulated in them imperceptibly by a thousand repeated modifications, like character in a person: at the moment when Gaston presented himself, to go along with the great "egotist" for a season, that life had just begun.”

  Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance

• “The woman she knows how to talk and she's so down to earth, I mean, when you find someone successful in his/her life you think that they are very "egotist" and all that, but that woman was so down to earth and she was treating the group in a very polite, open minded and educated way!”

  Qwaider Planet

• “His kind of egotist wouldn't, not on such a topic. ”

  There Will Be Time

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