Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly…

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Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin, p.349
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