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If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

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Max Ehrmann
Age: 72 †
Born: 1872
Born: September 26
Died: 1945
Died: September 9
Businessperson
Lawyer
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Terre Haute
Indiana
Always
Compare
Vain
Bitter
Greater
Others
Become
May
Persons
Lesser

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