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Measure Other People's Corn

To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel. To judge of others by oneself. In French, “Mesurer les autres à son aune;” in Latin, “Alios suo modulo metiri.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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