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Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is human nature.

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

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

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

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.

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.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.