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For the very things we have been guilty of ourselves we will tar, feather and ride our neighbors out of town on a rail.

Seems to me the most excercise some people get is from jumping to conclusions about other people.

It has been my experience that we generally expect out of others what we would do ourselves in just about any circumstance, so the next time your imagination gets out of control and you start thinking the worst of someone ask yourself if what you are thinking about them is what you would do under the same circumstances or if you have been guilty of it yourself in the past. If the answer to either question is yes ----- then Shut Up.

Just An Observation

We expect of others in most given situations,
What we ourselves would do, for it's our inclination,
To think that we are all the same so we think they would do,
The same as we if we should find ourselves in those same shoes;

So when we suspect another of some skulduggery,
Or we look down on someone and think debauchery,
Because they made in innocence a picturesque remark,
That we perhaps misunderstood and decided to embark,

On a mental journey to the land of fantasy,
Imagining the things they did and we begin romancing,
Evil thoughts within our minds that have no ground at all,
Except within our fertile mind where Satan has a ball.

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