EGOTISM.
“You talk a great deal about yourself,” say many who never get talked about, either by themselves or other people. “This is against the tone of good society.”
“I advise you to seek better society than mine.”
“You talk a great deal about yourself——”
“Yes. Would you prefer me to speak of you, ... or your cat, ... or your dog, ... or your ass?”
Do you wish that? Well, content yourself, I have often done so, but you did not know it at the time, because you are always confusing yourself with your neighbour’s donkey. Your neighbour has also been complaining; he says that I have been all the time talking aboutyourdonkeys. Compensation! The donkeys themselves have never complained, the good, dumb beasts.
“You talk a great deal about yourself——”
“Yes. I want to be honest.”
“You talk a great deal about yourself——”
“Yes. I am my own latest love. I had loved long, and often, and ardently, beforethatlove was born. But now that it does exist, ... and is the last....”
“You talk a great deal about yourself——”
“Yes. If it wearies you, what hinders your exchanging me for theAglaia? What hinders your becoming a subscriber to ‘The Life, Fortunes, and Business of the Kappelman Family’—in one vol., cloth gilt?”
“You talk a great deal about yourself——”
“Quite so. When you do what Havelaar did, and the rich young man in Matthew xix. didnotdo, I will talk about you.”
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