| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40585 |
| QUOTATION: | Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Marianne Moore (18871972), U.S. poet. repr. In Complete Prose (1987). Comment, Dial, no. 82 (New York, March 1927). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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