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

Envy is human nature.

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

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

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

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

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

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.