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• He draws water over his own rice field.

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• A miser and his persimmon seeds.

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• To lend your hatchet and get your forest cut down.

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• The flowers of others are red.

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• Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone.

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• Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds.

  Prem Prakash

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• Selfishness stops the flow of blessings to you and others.

  Brenda Johnson Padgitt

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• For beings who have it in us to afford so much joy to others, how miserly we are!

  Shraga Silverstein

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• As a father now, I wouldn’t do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn’t do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

  Anthony Kiedis

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• The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

  David O. McKay

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• Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

  Elizabeth Bowen

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

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• I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

  Oscar Levant

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

  Honoré de Balzac

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• If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

  Louis Kronenberger

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• People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look — like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

  Vanna Bonta

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