"People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly."

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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson