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Base Envy withers...

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Base Envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

Source: The Seasons. Spring. Line 283.
-- James Thomson, (Nov 23 1834-1882), Scottish poet, essayist; He was best known for The City of Dreadful Night, about his despair of political affairs.


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