Arabian Envious And Envied

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One man so envies his pious neighbor's good name that he tries to drown him in a well; but the well shelters spirits who heal the envied man and grant him fortune, while the envier, scheming on, is undone by his own malice. Moral: envy labors hardest to ruin itself. — Thousand and One Nights