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To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
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The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
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If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
envy secret excellence
it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it. Elizabeth Montagu
envy long together
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails. Edmund Waller
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A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
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The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off. David McKeown
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There are cases where new evidence causes doubt, but this is not one of them.
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There are cases of waste and privileges that must be seriously restructured, Rocco Buttiglione
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Where the report has found evidence of market abuse, we welcome the Commission's commitment to pursue such cases urgently and vigorously.
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A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state. Mark Kennedy
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'. David Icke
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We're going to offer them contracts. They are really important players for us, and we've very hopeful in all three cases of getting them signed up and resolved.
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We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense. Kendrick Meek