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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

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It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

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For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

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Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

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However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

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You are forever alone.

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Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

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There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

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But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: May 23rd, 1846

Died: January 28th, 1933

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