Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. (Francis Bacon)

Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

Francis Bacon

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