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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
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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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"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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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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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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"Envy yearns to find flaws."
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"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."
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"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
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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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"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
Friendship
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
Opinion
"The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off."
Being
"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
Society
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
Envy
"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."
Confidence
"Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food."
Food
"I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might."
Thought
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
Fun
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