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• Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

  Eubie Blake

  Trust, Want, Emotion

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• Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lonely, Anger, Tag

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• Envy is a surefire party killer.

  Bob Colacello

  Party

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd be very, very careful about falling prey to the things that liberals say about people, and that is rich people are automatically untrustworthy. They love to use class envy and they love to attack the whole notion of trickle-down economics by pointing out the rich are miserly and they don't share and they don't give and they don't... It's all a bunch of... It's not true.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fall, People, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hatred, Envied

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• Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Lying, Greatness

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

  Jean Rostand

  People, Gossip, Criticism

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• Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Men, Mankind

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.173, 谷月社

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• A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

  Thomas Traherne

  Eye, Sight, Perspective

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.241, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hatred, Together, Facts

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• The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

  Robert Ringer

  Greed, Taxation, Insatiable

  Robert J. Ringer (1983). “How you can find happiness during the collapse of Western civilization”, Harpercollins

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• America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Strong, Military

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

  Masiela Lusha

  Virtue, Poet, Angle

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Generosity, Reign, Virtue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.450, Collector's Library

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• Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

  William Hazlitt

  Children, Character, Parent

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• Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  Petrarch

  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

  "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

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• The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

  Denis Waitley

  Criticism, Price Of Success, Bears

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• What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Nice, Caring, College

  Source: gawker.com

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• People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  People, Sin, Persons

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

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• Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Mind, Desire

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• People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, People, Shame

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• Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Hands, Endure

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• The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Regret, Hate, World

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• I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can't see all that far ahead.

  Jay McInerney

  Writing, Thinking, Dangerous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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