| 1. | I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | "Monsieur le Baron, egotism is the law of the world. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion fro. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | The eyes were large and mild and--this may seem egotism on my part--I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 5. | From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the compassion of the man who meditates. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my friend's singular character. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | But all he said was so prettily sedate, and the naivete of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that he disarmed his hearers. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | On the eve of departure I carry my egotism so far as to say, 'Do not forget me, my kind friends, for probably you will never see me again.'. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | Prince Andrew, with a beaming, ecstatic expression of renewed life on his face, paused in front of Pierre and, not noticing his sad look, smiled at him with the egotism of joy. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |