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"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."
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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."
"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."
Envy,
"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."
"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."
"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
"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."
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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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