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Quote by George Eliot
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is har

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot

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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. РHonor̩ de Balzac

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Love shouldnt be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you cant have that from the get-go, theres a problem. – Aaron Carter

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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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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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