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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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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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"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 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
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy
"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
"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
"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
Friendship
"We know the ideal isn't where the action is."
Action
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
Envy
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