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Projection
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“How much we give to thoughts and things our tone, / And judge of others' feelings by our own!”
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“Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.”
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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
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“Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.”
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“... one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.”
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“... a man generally judges of the disposition of others by his own, so Claude, being himself a deceiver, feared deception from me.”
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“... the man who slurs / Some other man is guiltier / Of just the same misdeed, I'm sure, / That he maintains the other is.”
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“Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.”
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“How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.”