How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty. (Charles Lamb)

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty.

Charles Lamb

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