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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
 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.] 
 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. 
It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of read more
It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.
 It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of 
others, and to forget his own.
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 It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of 
others, and to forget his own.
 [Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci 
suorum.] 
 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.] 
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
 Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from 
their own faults.]
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 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.] 
 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.