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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.


Joseph Epstein

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JOSEPH CAMPBELL I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Love is a friendship set to music.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL