Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. - Franz Grillparzer

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And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

Franz Grillparzer

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

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