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The blame for much of this selfimportance can be laid at the door of Romanticism, that seizure of the imagination that dominated the 19th century, a period when artists shook off their feudal ties with the established order and started polishing the first-person pronoun.
June 2006 2006
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They would rather leave an arthritic pensioner with a bin full of stinking household waste for a month, just to serve their own sense of selfimportance and righteousness.
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They would rather leave an arthritic pensioner with a bin full of stinking household waste for a month, just to serve their own sense of selfimportance and righteousness.
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In referring to this as a very important case, petitioners characteristically mistake selfimportance for the real thing.
B2fxxx 2005
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