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"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."
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"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."

"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."

"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

"Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand."

"If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody."

"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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"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."

"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done."

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."

"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
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