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“That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.”

Common Mankind Rate Envy Superiors Pursue Incessant

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.”

Giving Pleasure Mankind Objects Ready Fame Envy Latter Admiration Offspring

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.”

Ifs Giving Helping Mankind Bears Equal Weight Envy Scales Superiors Acknowledge Merit Thrown Ridicule Casting Malice

Author:William Hazlitt

“No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.”

People Thinking War Desire Next Wonderful Worst Mankind Materials Importance Greed Possession Envy Horrible Advertising Viewpoints Menace

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“America has everything most countries envy. A Constitution which is the treasure of mankind, a strong military, natural resources of every kind. Above all, as Tocqueville said, a good people, which is what makes us great.”

People Kind Country Strong Natural Mankind Military Constitution Envy Good People Natural Resources

Author:John F. Kerry

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

Men Love Mankind Love You All Things Envy Envied

Book:Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections

“He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below”

Looks Hate Mankind Clouds Envy Snow

Author:Barbara Taylor Bradford