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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
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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."
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"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."
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"Success causes others to be jealous and hate."
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"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
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"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
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"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!"
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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy

"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."
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"I am married to someone I love."
Love

"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."
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"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
Fun

"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
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"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
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"I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might."
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"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
Friendship

"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."
Envy
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