Because this love does not consist with self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Various factors contributed to increase their self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Perhaps it took out your self-conceit, and made you humble. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
So in complacent, pathetic self-conceit said poor Mr. Austin. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
It was in vain to urge any arguments against the self-conceit of. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
I Once knew an agreeable girl whose great failing was her self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Juliet Mitchell escape the consequences of her disobedience and self-conceit?. From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
He had self-conceit, which is a talent when combined with some other qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference
But if from self-conceit thou wilt not listen, thou wilt (then) utterly perish. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Good books are the enemies of delusion, the most effectual extinguishers of self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
They would have merely helped to pamper his self-conceit and smooth down his ruffled pride. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Self-knowledge must not be confused with self-conceit; for it implies no immodesty or egotism. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
But, unfortunately for Jack's self-conceit, the event did not coincide with these highly-colored views. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
He closed this wretched outbreak of peevishness and wounded self-conceit with the following passage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
There is a common vice of self-conceit, but there is also a common vice of excessive self-depreciation. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
A young man of this congregation got suddenly rich, and, with wealth, self-conceit and pride entered his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
His learning was great but scarcely equaled his self-conceit, as repeatedly displayed in passages of his works. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Those who disliked him accused him in particular of self-conceit, and of letting his temper break out too easily. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
Spinoza's maxim was that the two great banes of humanity are self-conceit and the laziness coming from self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
Young John was of our age, bright, quick-witted, with a kind heart, an open hand, and a full allowance of self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. From Wordnik.com. [Statement on Bahá’u’lláh] Reference
He can talk with one without being lost in his own self-conceit, fancying you deep in admiration of his own charming self. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
It is a singular fact, that the people I have in view invariably combine extreme ugliness with spitefulness and self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
When the Lord used the disciples 'word they began to be ashamed, and in the fire of their shame their self-conceit was consumed. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The official surveyor was a fat-cheeked, handsome man, with a silky brown beard, an effeminate voice, and prodigious self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
It was something more than pique, something more than self-conceit or spite, which lay at the bottom of such long-continued insults. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Earlier writers, while they call him obliging, honest and courteous, speak also of his self-conceit, boastfulness, fondness for drink. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
For one thing, there is no deceit in Peter's question; he thinks aloud, and his thought is one of intense and undisguised self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
"It would look more sensible if they did," replied Croly, who had too much self-conceit to see the point of a joke that was aimed at him. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference
If you are very sensitive, do not censure yourselves too severely, nor foster distrust; for the latter is worse for you than self-conceit. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
The workman, however, through the abundance of his self-conceit, would try it himself, and accordingly it carried off part of his jaw-bone and hand. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Any obtrusion of self, any appearance of self-love, self-interest, self-conceit, or self-applause, tends to expose a man to dislike, perhaps to contempt. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
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