Frae such an auld friend as him I was lucky not to be touched for half a sovereign! I've found some men are so.

Let you succeed, let you mak' your bit siller, and they remember that they knew you well when you were no so well off and famous.

And it's always the same way.

If they've not succeeded, it's always someone else's fault, never their own.

They dislike you because you've done well when they've done ill.