"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
"Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others."
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Source: Aesop, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1939). “Æsop's Fables”
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