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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Max Beerbohm
Pride, Instinct, Egoism
Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.66, New York Review of Books
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.