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"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
"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."
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
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"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later."
"There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear."
"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."
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