“But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage
A woman's envy?”
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
Progress of Beauty; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Envy", p. 226-27.
“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”
Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IV
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