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"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."

"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."

"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."

"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."

"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."

"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."

"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."

"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
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