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Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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More men die of jealousy than of cancer. – Joseph P. Kennedy

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937

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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. – William Graham Sumner

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