"He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker."
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"No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature."
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"If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured."
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"So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!"
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"Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?"
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"Faults that are rich are fair."
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"Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd."
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"A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents."
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"I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings."
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"Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults."
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"Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties."
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"The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition."
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"But there are times when patience proves at fault."
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"If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault"
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"Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf[.]"
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"Only the great can afford to have great defects."
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"Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible."
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"The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise."
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"Don't find the fault, find the remedy"
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