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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

Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929), U.S. sociologist. Human Nature and the Social Order, ch. 5 (1902).

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