"If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter for alway..." - Max Ehrmann

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

— Max Ehrmann
Writer, poet, and attorney

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Max Ehrmann was a 19th-century American writer, poet, and attorney. Max Ehrmann was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata". He often wrote on spiritual themes. Read more on Wikipedia →

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