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The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead.
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It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
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Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.
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Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.
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All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
October 14, 1879
Died:
September 19, 1954
(aged 74)
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