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"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
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"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."
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"Success causes others to be jealous and hate."
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"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
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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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"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!"
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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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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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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism."
Being
"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
Envy
"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
"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
"Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food."
Food
"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
"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 myself think anti-Semitism is about envy."
Envy
"I am married to someone I love."
Love
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