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Mandeville draws a nice distinction between self-love, and, what he calls, self-liking.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

His inside is of the self-same fashion, not rich; but as it reflects from the glass of self-liking, there Croesus is Irus to him.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various