Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I was just going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an extension of the following arithmetical formula 2 2 4. Every philosophical proposition has the more general character of the expression a b c. We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
The egotists may go on pilgrimages to holy rivers, sacred shrines and foreign lands, but they only gather more of the dirt of egotism.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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