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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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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."

"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!"

"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."

"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."

"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."

"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
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"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."

"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."

"And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character."

"Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country."

"I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country."

"It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages."
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