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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. ↗

— Mark Twain

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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page. ↗

— Luke Wilson

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

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How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. ↗

— Herodotus

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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. ↗

— Irving Layton

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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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