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"Envy aims very high."
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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
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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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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."
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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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