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Envy Quotes
"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
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"Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present."
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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy,
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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."
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"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
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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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"Many critics are born of envy."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
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"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."
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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."
21
"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."
Envy,
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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."
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"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
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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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"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
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"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
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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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"Envy suggests inferiority."
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"Envy yearns to find flaws."
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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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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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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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"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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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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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."
9
"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."
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