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Envy is human nature.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.