Once You Are Thought Selfish, Not Only Are You Forgiven A Life Designed Mainly To Suit Yourself, Which In Anyone Else Would Appear Monstrous, But If An Impulse To Generosity Should By Chance Overpower You, You Will Get Five Times The Credit Of Some Poor Selfless Soul Who Has Been Oozing Kindness For Years.

-Carolyn Heilbrun

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Once You Are Thought Selfish, Not Only

Carolyn Heilbrun

Once You Are Thought Selfish, Not Only Are You Forgiven A Life Designed Mainly To Suit Yourself, Which In Anyone Else Would Appear Monstrous, But If An Impulse To Generosity Should By Chance Overpower You, You Will Get Five Times The Credit Of Some Poor Selfless Soul Who Has Been Oozing Kindness For Years.

Topic

Kindness

Selfish

Years

Whether Deliberately, Unconsciously Or Accidentally, She Seems To Have Composed Her Own Life So That Its Fitful, Rudderless, And Self-doubting First Half Was Alchemized Into Gold When The Austere Bluestocking Became The Fallen Woman.

Life

Self

Doubt