"And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two."
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"What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him."
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"If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine."
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"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."
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"Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own."
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"It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding."
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"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."
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"Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal."
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"The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."
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"There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line."
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"Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults."
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"Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump."
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"Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass."
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"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
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"I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."
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"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."
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"All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure."
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"Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues."
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"His only fault is that he has no fault."
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"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
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