A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar WildeHow you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I canโt make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I canโt eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say itโs perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.
Oscar Wilde