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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy,
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more 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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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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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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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."
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"Success causes others to be jealous and hate."
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"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."
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"I envy the dead."
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"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
"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
Fun
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
Reading
"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."
Relationship
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
Envy
"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy
"I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."
Envy
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
Opinion
"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
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