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"Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions."

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Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

— Augustus William Hare

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

— Lord Byron

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