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We are ashamed of envy because we learn from the cradle to hide our self-love
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- Bernard Mandeville Anglo-Dutch philosopher and satirist (1670 to 1733)
That we are so generally ashamed of this vice, is owing to that strong habit of hypocrisy, by the help of which, we have learned from our cradle to hide even from ourselves the vast extent of self-love, and all its different branches.
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↗The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Public Benefits (1714; 1806 edition)gutenberg.org
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