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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch bu

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. – Francis Bacon

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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Envy eats nothing, but its own heart. – Proverb

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Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. – Danish proverb

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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. – Joseph Addison

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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved – Mason Cooley

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