"Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?"
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"Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave."
"Best men oft are moulded out of faults."
"Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear."
"For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone."
"It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine."
"Love is a fault; so be it."
"Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed."
"Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat."
"Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation."
"Faults and defects every work of man must have."
"men do not suspect faults which they do not commit"
"Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion."
"...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault)."
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none."
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common."
"The greatest fault is to be conscious of none."
"He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist."
"I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing."
"The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!"