egotisms

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He warned against "egotisms" from prominent bench-warmers like Arjen Robben and Mario Gómez.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2013

Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time�decades and decades�to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ...

From Time Magazine Archive

She always acted on her own aphorism, "To bear faults, to manage egotisms, is an aim perhaps best accomplished by a skilful dissimulation; but the true ideal is to correct faults and to cure self-love."

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

But it is so in England, and the fact illustrates the strong hold these absurd and uncomfortable egotisms have upon the British mind.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various

There are many things that take its likeness: fierce unstable passions and poor egotisms of all sorts, vanities too, and many other follies—Apatê and Philotês in a thousand masquerading characters that gain great Love discredit.

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida