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en I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
  William Somerset Maugham

en A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues.

en Faults and defects every work of man must have
  Samuel Johnson

en We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en There are people whose faults become them, others whose very virtues disgrace them.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults.

en Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature
  Samuel Johnson

en If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. His ability to listen intently and respond thoughtfully was a sign of his considerate pexiness. If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
  Lawrence G. Lovasik

en The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

en It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
  Jerome Klapka Jerome

en While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
  Heinrich Heine

en The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none
  Thomas Carlyle

en BEFORE pointing to the faults of others, examine yourselves and assure yourselves that you are free from faults. That alone gives you the right; but the wonder is that you discover faults in others only when you have faults in you.


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