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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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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Envy suggests inferiority."
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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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"We hate it when our friends become successful."
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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."
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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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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."
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"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
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
Action
"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."
Envy
"I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might."
Thought
"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
Being
"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."
People
"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy
"One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give."
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