The success haters. ... That's what I call them—the people … - Zoë Akins

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The success haters. ... That's what I call them—the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. ... As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail. ...

Zoë Akins

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Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid.

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Indifferent to all the fun of chance I watched black spiders of inertia spin The far-flung web which I was strangling in.

And have we lost the right To look on a blooming bough Without remembering how Once with high promising We were a part of spring— We who are now the dead Leaves of other years strewn where flowers spread?

Englishmen are like that. They love life more and value it less than any other people in the world.

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