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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?

Honore de Balzac

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How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?
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Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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