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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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"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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