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Meanings of own selfishness in English

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Usage of own selfishness in English
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It is my own selfishness that puts this thought into my mind.
The Pagans
2
How mother love often blinds the eyes to its own selfishness.
People of the Whirlpool / From The Experience Book of a Commuter...
3
And he had nothing to blame but his own selfishness and insatiable libido.
A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
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But Cornelia's blindness to her own selfishness is also both comic and tragic.
Reuters
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Surely their wishes are a better guide than my own selfishness.
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
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He did not yet apprehend his own selfishness nor her nobility.
The Golden House
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Nancy's own selfishness had been superimposed upon her by untoward circumstances.
The Purple Heights
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There was nothing in all this revolt except his own selfishness and wounded vanity.
The Puritans
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He knew that it was wrong, and he abused himself for his own selfishness.
The Belton Estate
10
But the people of France, through their own selfishness, were choosing this road to ruin.
Consent to kill: a thriller
11
In Conversation, complexity adapts itself artfully to others, in order to gratify its own selfishness.
The Elements of Character
12
You never think of anything but your own selfishness.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
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One reason may be guilt: nobody likes to be reminded, even implicitly, of his own selfishness.
The Guardian
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She was hard, devoid of humor, wrapped up in her own selfishness; shrewd, capable and resourceful.
Nedra
15
I was there because of my own selfishness.
The Guardian
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But you have suffered terribly; I am ashamed of my own selfishness when I think of it.
A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 / A Novel
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