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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. – Charles Horton Cooley

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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. – Wayne Dyer

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. – Arnold Bennett

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. – Wayne Dyer

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. – Proverb

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