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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
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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."
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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
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"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."
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"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off."
Being
"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
Fun
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
Reading
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
Relationship
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
Envy
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
Opinion
"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
Society
"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
Action
"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
Friendship
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