Tellingly, by the time we reach 'Wallow', our self-centred guide is confessing he's "losing all my friends".

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IR I must protest against your portrait of France as an illiberal, self-centred nation.

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My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a result of a self-centred mindset bent on profit at any cost.

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"And one of our problems is that we're too self-centred, " he added.

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But the overall picture that emerges is of a paradoxical man, capable of great sensitivity, who appears also to have been a self-centred, irascible bully.

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Most people who write about themselves are vain, self-justifying and self-centred, but this account of life at the Court of King Bill is an essay in selfabnegation and beautifully written.

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After Mancini's sacking, City's former kit man Stephen Aziz, described the Italian as "arrogant, vain and self-centred" in one of a series of tweets that were later deleted from his Twitter account on Tuesday.

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Here the past thrusts through the walls of the present, but it is not a heritage city pandering to the past: it is chaotic, relaxed and frantic, filled to the brim with its stylish, traditional, anarchic, conformist, self-centred, charming and ebullient inhabitants.

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It is run by and centred on a network of women's self-help groups (SHG) and linked to a government school and a local development resource centre.

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