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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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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."
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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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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
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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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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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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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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
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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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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
Intelligence
"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
Society
"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
Public
"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
God
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
Society
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
Truth
"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
Government
"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
Man
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
Envy
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
Truth
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