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“Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.”
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- Source:
- The Seasons. Spring. Line 283.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d85de2218dbd38791ea80ce23bc65b7dafe1d977b4e46602a726a4d04e8d8e87
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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