#defect

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#everything #grow #into #others #ourselves

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

— Enrique Iglesias

#good #good person #i #many #person

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greatest #mankind #sickness

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. ↗

— Robert Lowell

#outgrow #soon #too #youth

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

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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

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We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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