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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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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – 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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Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. – Danish proverb

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