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The knives of jealousy are honed on details. - Ruth Rendell

The knives of jealousy are honed on details. – Ruth Rendell

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Ive had two proposals since Ive been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. – Ruth Rendell

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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. РFran̤ois de La Rochefoucauld

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The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. – Richard Perle

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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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My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. – Conrad Veidt

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