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As Spitta, his biographer, writes: "As far as anything human can be imagined, the marriage was perfectly happy. Besides their genius both husband and wife had simple domestic tastes and were strong enough to bear the admiration of the world, without becoming egotistical. They lived for one another and for their children.
I do not place much reliance on your boasted nobility of spirit; it is pride, egotistical pride. Yes, your pride is your god a pitiful sort of a god! And as to Poland " He winced at this word. After a pause, Antoinette continued: "It is she herself who will give, or rather lend, you to me.
The manner in which Wordsworth met this proposal indicated the limit of his absorption in himself his real desire only to dwell on his own feelings in such a way as might make them useful to others. For he rejected the plan as too egotistical as emphasizing the succession of moods in the poet's mind, rather than the lessons which those moods could teach.
Man, armed by science with such powers of slaying, should be less egotistical than weasels and perverted sheep-dogs. I will not kill her.
M. Vinteuil would have liked nothing better, but he carried politeness and consideration for others to so fine a point, always putting himself in their place, that he was afraid of boring them, or of appearing egotistical, if he carried out, or even allowed them to suspect what were his own desires.
I have just thrown together a few thoughts on art, as a sort of introduction to to Columbus, in short. They are written down on this paper the thoughts are. Would anybody be kind enough to read them, while I point out what they mean on the picture? I only ask, because it seems egotistical to be reading my opinions about my own works. Will anybody be kind enough?" repeated Mr.
Sitting before her, prosperous, weak, egotistical, incompetent, unavailable, and yet filled with a vague kindliness of intent, Mrs. Tucker loathed him. A sickening perception of her own weakness in sending for him, a new and aching sense of her utter isolation and helplessness, seemed to paralyze her.
He had great faults and weaknesses as well as virtues. He was egotistical, vain, and vacillating. But he was industrious, amiable, witty, and public spirited. In his official position he was incorruptible. He was no soldier, but he had a greater than a warrior's excellence. In spite of his faults, his name is one of the brightest of the ancients.
Women have the habit of believing in the optimistic outpourings of egotistical men, and often hasten men along the road to ruin by proclaiming this belief and acting upon it.
All this, Lovel well knew, might be only that sort of egotistical gallantry which induces some young men of the present day to give themselves the air of engrossing the attention of the prettiest women in company, as if the others were unworthy of their notice.
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