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title: "4 Selfish Passions Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen; Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-farquhar-tupper/man-liveth-from-hour-to-hour-and-knoweth-not-what-may-happen/)

[Martin Farquhar Tupper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-farquhar-tupper/)

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> [People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/people-cleave-to-their-worldly-possessions-and-selfish-passions-so/)

[Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/)

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> [The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aung-san-suu-kyi/the-act-of-willingly-subtracting-from-one-s-own-limited-store-of-the/)

[Aung San Suu Kyi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aung-san-suu-kyi/)

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> [Love is the most selfish of all the passions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandre-dumas/love-is-the-most-selfish-of-all-the-passions/)

[Alexandre Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandre-dumas/)

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