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Letter "E" » egotists
«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.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, distinctive, egotism, egotist, egotists, worthless
«Someone said of a very great egotist: `He would burn your house down to cook himself a couple of eggs.'»
«An egotist is a person of low taste-more interested in himself than in me.»
«Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.»
«SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters:Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of peppered roast That's made of you;Wherein you paste the printed gibes That revel round your name, Thinking the laughter of the scribes Attests your fame;Where all the pictures you arrange That comic pencils trace -- Your funny figure and your strange Semitic face --Pray lend it me. Wit I have not, Nor art, but there I'll list The daily drubbings you'd have got Had God a fist.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
egotist, egotists, interested, In Me, low, taste
«One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people»
«Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.»
«An egotist can never be humble that is why he is seldom blessed even by god.»
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