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The only cure for the sluggish working of the patriotic instinct among the cowardly and the selfish is the sharp stimulus of condign punishment.— Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
In a sudden flash of illuminating reason he saw himself as he was--selfish, cynical, inconsiderate, brutal.— Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst
"England is selfish, that is all.— 54-40 or Fight
The gods of the heathen were of like passions with their worshippers--selfish, cruel, vindictive, and without regard for equity or justice in their treatment of men.— Exposition of the Apostles Creed
If he is selfish, that is, if he interprets the self that is in him as vulturous, then the whole outer world and his fellow-men fall for him into the category of carrion, or not-carrion.— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
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