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Selfish Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);…
- All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
- The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
- Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
- Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
- The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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