"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

Envy, Glory, Respect

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"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."

Charles Churchill, English Poet

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"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."

Griffin Dunne, American Actor

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"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

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

Lois Greiman, American Author

Envy, Jealousy, Irony, Emotion

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Envy, Hate, Hatred

"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

Aesop, Greek Author

Envy, People

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

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

Envy, May

"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."

Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."

Joseph Epstein, American Writer

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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

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"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

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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."

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"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

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"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."

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"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

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"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."

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"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."

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"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."

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