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Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness but envy gets no reward but vexation.

Jeremy Collier

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Jeremy Collier
Age: 76 †
Born: 1650
Born: January 1
Died: 1726
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Priest
Theatre Critic
Writer
County of Cambridge
Pleasure
Covetousness
Others
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Power
Luxury
Even
Envy
Rewards
Ambition
Disconsolate
Gets
Pelf
Passion
Vexation

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