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William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1623), Julius Cæsar (1599), Act I, scene 2, line 208.In contextI am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don’t disparage envy but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on envy
Holmes-Laski Letters : The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916—1935 (1953), Vol. 2, p. 942.
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