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Some folks
rail against other folks, because other folks have what some
folks would be glad of.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
Nothing
sharpens sight like envy.
-- Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman,
Author
Fools may our
scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
-- John Gay
1688-1732, British
Playwright, Poet
Men are so
constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another
successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
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The envious
die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
-- Baltasar Gracian
1601-1658, Spanish
Philosopher, Writer
Helpless,
unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however
sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as
passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend
that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of
us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the
wheel ourselves.
-- Ralph Harper
Envy among
other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in
it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved
good-fortune.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
How much
better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
-- Herodotus
BC 484-425, Greek Historian
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