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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. — Charles Churchill
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity… — Dave Freudenthal
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched… — David Lehman
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at… — Deidre Hall
Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We… — Eliot Spitzer
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid! — Eric Burdon
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little… — Freddie Highmore
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. — Griffin Dunne
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual… — Gustav Stresemann
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. — Henry Fielding
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy.… — Imelda Staunton
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. — Jacopo Sannazaro
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is… — Jeremy Irons
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. — Joe Orton
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. — Joseph Epstein
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. — Joseph Epstein
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. — Joseph Epstein
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. — Joseph Epstein
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. — Joseph Hall
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to… — Karl A. Menninger
I almost envy people who say whatever they want. — Kate Bosworth
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. — Livy

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