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Selfish Quotes - Page 29

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.341

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Robert A. Heinlein (2012). “The Star Beast”, p.190, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.198, JHU Press

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.300, Library of America