"Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's."

Envy, Jealousy, Irony, Emotion

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"Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's."

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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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!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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"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."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."

Jerry Costello, American Politician

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"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."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Tanzanian Author

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"The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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