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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Envious

Envious people are disarmed by their own dispositions, as iron by rust.
—Antisthenes

Envious as a pretty woman is of another woman, as a banker is of another banker, as a political adversary is of a rival.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Envious as an old maid verging on the desperation of six and thirty.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan