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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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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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Argument & Debate
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Joseph Addison
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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison

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Instinct
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Joseph Addison
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Envy / Jealousy
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I never admire anothers fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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Envy / Jealousy

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. – Minna Antrim

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Envy / Jealousy

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