oneself

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How about some truth in advertising: The debate’s title should have been “Agitating for Followers: the Art of Calling Attention to Oneself While Saying Absolutely Nothing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Anne Fadiman’s spring-term seminar, Writing About Oneself, is a survey of British and American memoirs, autobiographies, personal essays, and letters.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2019

In 1750, when he was comfortably into middle age, Benjamin Franklin wrote a humorous piece setting forth “Rules for Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2016

"The Theatre of Oneself," says M. Evreinov, is conducted by every human being in all those acts wherein the human being is distinguishable from lower animals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oneself to have escaped calamity Is cause for joy; to bring a friend to harm Fills one with sorrow.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin