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• There are days when I am envious of my hens:
  when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
  as a single daily egg.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Eggs, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver, “Apotheosis”

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• Those who object to wit are envious of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Wit, Objects

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.136

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• The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

  Desmond Tutu

  Insecurity, Different, Needs

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.77, Random House

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• Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Crazy, Eye

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

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• I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Imitation

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• ‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Ungrateful, Arrogant

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Real, Campaigns

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?'

  Simon Helberg

  Tvs, Hey, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

  David J. Lieberman

  Heart, Thinking, Advice

  Dr. David J. Lieberman, Ph.D. (2010). “Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation”, p.155, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time is about as polluted and needy and beautiful as most other times. I was around in the '70s, and people were just as ambitious and envious and filled with need and desire as they are today.

  Jerry Saltz

  Beautiful, People, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Envy, Praise

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• Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Fighting, Slavery

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Mean, Beer

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• Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you.

  Rick Warren

  Jealous, Advice, Criticism

  Twitter post from Nov 15, 2013

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• At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humorous, Wind

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• When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

  Evan Esar

  Envy, Watches, World

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• Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Christian, Satan, Hell

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• The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.

  Frantz Fanon

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

  Alexander Lowen

  Levels, Want, Potency

  Alexander Lowen (2012). “Narcissism: Denial of the True Self”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.

  Madame Roland

  Reading, Years, Envy

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• No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, Mean, Years

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• Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

  Max Beesley

  Acting, Actors, Littles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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