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“The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point in the face of all the propaganda is how few Amer...”
“I murmured because I had no shoes until I met man who had no feet.”
“Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.”
“If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.”
“To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.”
“No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.”
“Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”
“There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.”
“As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.”
“Envy is the most stupid of vices for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.”
“The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.”
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
“Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.”
“Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.”
“If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.”
“Friendship which is of its nature a delicate thing fastidious slow of growth is easily checked will hesitate demur recoil where love good old blustering love bowls ahead and blunders through every ...”
“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”
“Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.”
