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1  He is a selfish old beggar anyhow.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  We have self-devotion in a cause, and an end to achieve which is not a selfish one.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  He has certain qualities very largely developed; selfishness, secrecy, and purpose.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  It seems brutally selfish to me to have slept so long, and let him watch all night; but he was quite right.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  We, however, are not selfish, and we believe that God is with us through all this blackness, and these many dark hours.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  So his own selfishness frees my soul somewhat from the terrible power which he acquired over me on that dreadful night.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  For now that he think he is free from every trace of us all, and that he has escaped us with so many hours to him, then his selfish child-brain will whisper him to sleep.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give Love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X