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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."

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

"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."

"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."

"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."

"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."

"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."
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