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Quote by George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places. – Terri Guillemets

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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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