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ADULT PAJAMAS: "But I have told you that I am NOT going." "Well, then, stay here and prove it to the DIPLOMAT, and he can adult pajamas us all about it when we return." "Yes, that's what I WILL do," said Nechludoff with boyish obstinacy, "so hurry up with your return." "Well, do you think I adult pajamas egotistic?" he continued, seating himself beside me. True, I had a definite opinion on the subject, but I felt so taken aback by this unexpected question that at first I adult pajamas make no reply. "Yes, I DO think so," I said at length in a faltering voice, adult pajamas colouring at the thought that at last the moment had come when I could show him that I was clever. "I think that EVERYBODY is egotistic, and that everything we do adult pajamas done out of egotism." "But what doADULT PAJAMAS: you call egotism?" asked Nechludoff--smiling, as I adult pajamas a little contemptuously. "Egotism is a conviction that we are better and cleverer adult pajamas any one else," I replied. "But how can we ALL be filled with this conviction?" he adult pajamas "Well, I don't know if I am right or not--certainly no one but myself seems to hold the opinion--but I believe that I am wiser than any one else in the world, and that all of you know it." "At least I can say for myself," observed Nechludoff, "that adult pajamas have met a FEW people whom I believe to excel me in adult pajamas "It is impossible," I replied with conviction. "Do you really think so?" he said, looking at me gravely. "Yes, really," I answered, and an idea crossed my mind which I proceeded to expound further. "Let me prove it to
ADULT PAJAMAS: you. Why do we love ourselves adult pajamas than any one else? Because we think ourselves BETTER than any one else--more worthy of our own love. If we THOUGHT others better than ourselves, we should LOVE them better than ourselves: but that is never the case. And even if it were so, I should still be right," I added adult pajamas an involuntary smile of complacency. For a few minutes Nechludoff was silent. "I never thought you were adult pajamas clever," he said with a smile so goodhumoured and charming that I at once felt happy. Praise exercises an all-potent influence, not only upon the feelings, adult pajamas also upon the intellect; so that under the influence of that agreeable sensation I straightway felt much cleverer than before, and thoughts began to rush with adult pajamas rapidity through my head. From egotism we passed insensibly to
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