#envy

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#envy

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#flattery #envy

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy. ↗

— Holly Black

#faery #envy

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#gentlemen #paraphrased #universal-truths #envy

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. ↗

— Erica Jong

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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar. ↗

— Gregg Olsen

#writing #envy

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#envy