"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment."
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"Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it."
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"The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply."
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"At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower than in 1979, when the neoliberal assault was taking off. That perfectly naturally causes resentment and fear, and combines with a tendency to blame the most vulnerable."
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"Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment."
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"Expectations are resentment waiting to happen."
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"Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!"
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"I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history."
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"You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid."
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"You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor."
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"What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce."
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"There are no justified resentments."
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"I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused."
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"When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment."
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"When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment."
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"I have remained resentful to this day When any but myself presumed to say That there was anything I couldn't be."
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"The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment."
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"There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things."
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"Resentment creates stress."
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