The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
From Joseph Epstein
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
I know how deeply slothful I am.
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