Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
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Jodi Picoult
Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
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Bill Watterson
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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Aeschylus
She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free...
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Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
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Peter S. Beagle
More Quotes By Josh Billings
The squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
