He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....
The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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