More important, they believed, was public spiritedness - a system of habits and attitudes that would check egotism and self-indulgence.
How many times, after an equivoque, after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "a trip!"
Vanity, egotism, and pride - they all hide a subtle unhappiness, a cleverly disguised animosity.
Personal utterance was only egotism.
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