#failings

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. ↗

— Cary Grant

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The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. ↗

— Darin Strauss

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When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. ↗

— Epictetus

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

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