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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such a...more

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That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousi...more

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.