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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio Hearn
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
John Webster
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac Disraeli
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
Dixie Lee Ray
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
Carter G. Woodson
They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
C. Everett Koop
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Alexander Pope
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques Maritain
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt
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