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I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much...
Author:
Marilynne Robinson
Book:
Gilead
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Published at:
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I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.
( Marilynne Robinson )
[ Gilead ]
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