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"Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it."
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"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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