"With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China."
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"We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables."
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"Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves."
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"There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
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"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them."
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"The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects."
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"Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters."
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"You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen."
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"Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues."
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