Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twainin order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark TwainIt is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.
Mark Twain