#defect

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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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

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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ↗

— Herodotus

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I'm a good person, but with many defects. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#good #good person #i #many #person

Never judge a work of art by its defects. ↗

— Washington Allston

#defects #judge #never #work

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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