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Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
 When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
  But, read more 
 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
 When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
  But, being moody, give him time and scope,
   Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
    Confound themselves with working. 
 He has no fault except that he has no fault.
 [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]  
 He has no fault except that he has no fault.
 [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.] 
 Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from 
their own faults.]
 [Lat., Ea molestissime read more 
 Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from 
their own faults.]
 [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa 
ferenda sunt.] 
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
 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. 
 Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those 
who denounce what they do themselves.)
 [Lat., read more 
 Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those 
who denounce what they do themselves.)
 [Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?] 
 Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
 Not for thy faults, but mine.  
 Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
 Not for thy faults, but mine. 
 I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I 
know most faults.  
 I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I 
know most faults.