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"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
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"Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties."
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"If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody."
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"I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?"
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"I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent."
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"Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner."
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"I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me."
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"I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me."
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"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."
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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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"There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults."
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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
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"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries

"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Progress

"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery

"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance

"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
God

"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
Animals

"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
Wisdom

"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
Love

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
Genius
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