"We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults."
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"Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind."
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"The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable."
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"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."
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"If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault."
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"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
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"Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one."
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"Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault."
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"Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning."
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"A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults."
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"Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault."
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"It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin."
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"He is lifeless that is faultless."
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"There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light."
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"Faultless to a fault."
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"Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time."
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
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