selflessness
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He still believed in a life of selflessness, though.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush said Paton had "served with distinction for 16 years" and will be remembered for his "selflessness, amazing sense of humour, extreme kindness and inclusion of all".
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
What modern historians know is that selflessness didn’t come effortlessly to Washington.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
Mixing American history with wild fabulation, and parental grief with Buddhist spirituality, the book’s weirdness and originality helped smuggle through its schmaltzy moralizing about selflessness and empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The flame that had burned in Mercy’s eyes had such purity, such complete selflessness, that everything Kit had ever known seemed dim in its light.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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