"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

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"The best things carried to excess are wrong."

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"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."

Man

"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."

Beauty

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

Envy

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."

Appearance

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Nation

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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Karl A. Menninger, American Psychologist

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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."

Gustav Stresemann, German Politician

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Vittorio De Sica, Italian Director

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Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian Poet

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Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

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Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."

"Genius is independent of situation."

"Genius is of no country."

"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."

"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."

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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."

"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."

"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."

"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."

"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."

"Envy is an insult to oneself."

"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."

"Success causes others to be jealous and hate."