Even the jealousy of rival competitors for business or for place may be measured by the desire of each for that which the other would engross.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
This theory manifestly makes the justice of the distribution effected by free competition to depend on the false assumption of the natural equality of the competitors, and therefore as manifestly implies that unless men are equal in talents and opportunities, the system of unlimited freedom may produce a distribution that is seriously unjust.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
He had discovered somehow that men who would pay for nothing else would pay for being referred to as citizens of rare accomplishments, and as gentlemen whose business ability was such that their competitors were constantly howling in rage; and it became necessary to use this knowledge to obtain the bare necessities of life.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe