Quote by Joseph Addison
The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it t

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. – Joseph Addison

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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. – Francis Bacon

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. – Aeschylus

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved – Mason Cooley

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