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"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."
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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy,
"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
"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 a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be."
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."
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