“Most often we are judging not others, but rather our own faculties in others.”

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Le plus souvent nous ne jugeons pas les autres, mais nous jugeons nos propres facultés dans les autres.
Œuvres choisies (Paris: A. Hatier, 1934) p. 774; Andrew George Lehmann Sainte-Beuve (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962) p. 301.

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French literary critic 1804–1869

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