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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
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