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Schadenfreude
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“The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ... ”
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“People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.”
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“In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.”
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“To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.”
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“Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?”
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“The trials and tribulations of the great are often the support and stimulus of the weak.”
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“There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts, we long to know about them.”