#egotism

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog! ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. ↗

— John Milius

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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

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The ego taunts truth with sarcasm. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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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. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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