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Harold J. Laski: It is inevitable, also, that envy should be the nurse of hate and faction.

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It is inevitable, also, that envy should be the nurse of hate and faction.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski connects envy to the emergence of hate and factionalism in society.

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