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Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

Richard Whately

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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
Philosopher
Priest
Theologian
London
England
Envy
Hardest
Subdued
Perhaps
Pretext
Feelings
Owns
Another
Hostility
Looks
Hostile
Even
Justify
Hardly

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