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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions... envy is only moved to malice.
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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition ; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
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Emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
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Emulation is grief arising from seeing one’s seif exceeded or excelled by bis concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by bis own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
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