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• I am selfish. (10)
• But we are selfish. (18)
• Selfish and ungrateful! (4)
• How selfish they looked! (8)
• Not with a selfish one. (10)
• But they were so selfish. (8)
• It seemed so selfish of her! (8)
• That would be selfish and disgusting. (9)
• Do you think me very selfish, Uncle Tom? (8)
• He was thoroughly selfish from first to last. (9)
• Self-willed, obstinate, selfish, and ungrateful. (4)
• I have been very, very selfish, very thoughtless. (9)
• All my selfish nature cried out to accuse Ottilia. (10)
• She had a will of her own, was selfish in her French way. (8)
• My sisters say they think Sir Willoughby must be selfish. (10)
• I was a selfish child: I may not become an estimable woman. (10)
• But, no; I am not more than partly selfish on this occasion. (10)
• Had he been selfish, he would have been the happiest of men! (10)
• He grew utterly ashamed of his aimless selfish double-dealing. (10)
• He spoke alike without levity and without selfish sentimentality. (14)
• I am not so selfish, however, as to press for it, if inconvenient. (4)
• She was by no means aware that she was a selfish or foolish person. (9)
• Some resentment did arise at a perseverance so selfish and ungenerous. (4)
• She had not eloped with any worse feelings than those of selfish alarm. (4)
• Those Socialists and Labour men are an absolutely selfish set of people. (8)
• Yet, after all, I tacitly argued with him, why should we call her selfish? (9)
• His selfish falseness offended me, and I let him know that I despised him. (10)
• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. (4)
• I shrink from the thought of exposing my son to your besotted selfish example. (10)
• It may be the most selfish, but that is a question leading us into sophistries. (10)
• Men are so selfish: one cannot persuade them to be reasonable in such positions. (10)
• He has too much real feeling to address any woman on the haphazard of selfish passion. (4)
• To break up a home is at the best a dangerous experiment, and selfish into the bargain. (8)
• But it was not a merely selfish caution, under which she acted, in putting an end to it. (4)
• And could we carry our selfish point with you, we should leave it without a single regret. (4)
• But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself; more narrow-minded and selfish. (4)
• It was the purest and least selfish moment of his life, this moment after she had yielded. (8)
• He had grown to love her with the fullest force of a selfish, though not a common, nature. (10)
• He had grown to love her with the fullest force of a selfish, though not a common, nature. (22)
• Nothing but harm had come of it, and it had been a selfish indulgence of a culpable weakness. (9)
• He might have softened his father; but all, perhaps all, would think her selfish and ungrateful. (4)
• The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity. (4)
• Isabella appeared to her ungenerous and selfish, regardless of everything but her own gratification. (4)
• Or, in other words, since they must be selfish, let them be so without the poltroonery of selfishness. (10)
• Or, in other words, since they must be selfish, let them be so without the poltroonery of selfishness. (22)
• What a total overthrow to all my selfish resolves, all my egotistical plans, did that slight cadence give. (6)
• And your father says he had the reputation in college of being one of the most selfish fellows in the world. (9)
• I see that I was really a selfish suicide, because I feel I have power to do some good, and belong to the army. (10)
• In short, Rose is the cold-blooded novice, as I have always said, the most selfish of the creatures on two legs. (10)
• The money launching it would be coin washed pure of its iniquity of selfish reproduction, by service to mankind. (10)
• A bundle of firewood or old bracken, a few peat sods from one especial corner, were all the selfish peasants gathered. (8)
• I now perceive that you are but a selfish automaton, rooted to your own business, without a particle of patriotic sense. (8)
• And becoming entirely selfish he impressed his total abnegation of self upon Renee so that she could have worshipped him. (10)
• More and more she saw him selfish and mean, weak-willed, narrow-minded, and hard- hearted; and aimless, with all his talent. (9)
• We inquired as to every impulse, the noblest, the holiest in effect, and he found them in the last analysis of selfish origin. (9)
• Powers Jackson had not been a bad man, take his life all in all, but he had been accused, justly, of some ruthless, selfish acts. (13)
• William was gone, and she now felt as if she had wasted half his visit in idle cares and selfish solicitudes unconnected with him. (4)
• Strong in the sacred sense of gratitude, I turned on Temple, reproaching him with selfish forgetfulness of her good heart and pretty face. (10)
• It perfectly consisted with a keen sense of whatever was sordid and selfish in a man on whom his career must have had its inevitable effect. (9)
• Mrs. Brinkley had theorised Alice Pasmer as simply and primitively selfish, like the rest of the Pasmers in whom the family traits prevailed. (9)
• I hope the reader will see how this attitude distinguishes me from the selfish people who inhumanly exult in their remoteness from excursionists. (9)
• I knew well enough that they indulged a similar selfish hope, so I had no scruples about using their hospitality to their disadvantage if I could. (7)
• When a man has obtained his desire he becomes careless and self-satisfied; I was watchful, however, for I knew that I was naturally a selfish man. (8)
• In actual fact, occasional instances of gross and unscrupulous financial control of newspapers for selfish or base ends must be admitted to exist. (16)
• He could not help admiring Rogers for his ingenuity, and every selfish interest of his nature joined with many obvious duties to urge him to consent. (9)

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