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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham
Judging, Age, Mature
W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.26, Random House

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

W. Somerset Maugham
Writing, Judging, Concerned
W. Somerset Maugham (2014). “The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham: One of the Finest Writers of Short Stories Who Ever Lived”, p.328, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

W. Somerset Maugham
People, Judging, Want
W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.69, Random House

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham
Eye, Vanity, Judging
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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