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


William Shenstone

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it
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IRIS MURDOCH Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.
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OLIVER STONE Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
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KUSHIRO SHOKO Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy suggests inferiority.
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PHILIP K. DICK Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
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JOSEPH CONRAD Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.
DAVIS BUNN I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.
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JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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That’s what you say. That’s
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EUGENE FIELD Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HERACLITUS Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Jealousy is the fuel that hath burn or hath yearn
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F. L. LUCAN Great fear is concealed under daring.
LUCAN What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.
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We few, we hap...
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And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY