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"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
"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."
"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."
"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."
"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
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