#defect

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

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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

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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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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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