Example Sentences

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It was a state of joy which only the self-sacrificer knows.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark

Accordingly I was obliged to say in my definition that the self-sacrificer seeks to heighten another's possessions, pleasures, or powers at the cost of his own.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert