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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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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison

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Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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Envy eats nothing, but its own heart. – Proverb

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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