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It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others, and to forget his own
Faults and defects every work of man must have
There are faults we would fain pardon
No man is born without faults
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Paracelsus
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