Word: egoism
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...piano lessons. She could not make up her mind whether to go to college or not. She did not get around to reading much. But she did get some fun out of tormenting mediocre boys. She was clearly a setup for a ruthless and clever man whose egoism would outweigh hers...
They, their stenches, their minds and their diet repelled and depressed him at first. He came deeply to like and admire them. In the months of reading with them the Arctic's "Book of Silence," he lost haste, worry, rebelliousness, egoism. By spring he was so much one of them that he was painfully ill at ease-and bored-at sight of a white...
...salute you, England, full of envy, egoism is yours. May you be damned among sanctionist nations, result of your meanness. Holy Fascist cause, mother of civilization, fight for rights for the greatness of the Italian Empire, now, till the day of our death. Amen...
Fuming with rage, Il Duce's personal organ Popolo d'Italia screamed: "Italy will not accept Britain's dirty morality. . . . This immoral law which tries to take the air you breathe if that air suits the brutality of British egoism must cease...
...unabashed morality play revealing the struggle between good & evil in the soul of a wealthy and learned Parisian. Cenodoxus ("Vainglory") is known for his piety, charity, virtue; actually he is a fraud, a creature of damnable pride whose virtue is all for effect. Prodded by the black figures of Egoism and Hypocrisy and preyed on by demons, he resists (even on his death bed) the pleadings of his guardian angel; and at his death is tried in Heaven and condemned to Hell...