When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are t…

W. Somerset Maugham
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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 (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself
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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 (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself

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