#myself

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

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I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself. ↗

— Poppy Montgomery

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I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools. ↗

— Robert Moog

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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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