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    Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the
    failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be
    the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be
    their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout
    as a rival.

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He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
[Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]

He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
[Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]

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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.]

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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Faults Quotes,
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There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

by Jane Austen Found in: Faults Quotes,
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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.

by Christopher Codrington Found in: Faults Quotes,
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, read more

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri
oportet.]

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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.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Faults Quotes,
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Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.

Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Faults Quotes,
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Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them

by John Ruskin Found in: Faults Quotes,
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