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I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to read more
They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself!
But the wallet of the person read more
That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself!
But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth;
If he had any faults, he has left us in read more
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth;
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
