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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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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.