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16 quotesHe has not a single redeeming defect.
Faults
Benjamin Disraeli
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Faults
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
Deception
William Hazlitt
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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Excellence
William Hazlitt
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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Character
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
Youth
James Russell Lowell
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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
Perfection
W. Somerset Maugham
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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
Friends and Friendship
W. Somerset Maugham
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Self-knowledge
Alexander Pope
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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Fathers
Bertrand Russell
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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Faults
Marquis De Sade
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Belief
Jonathan Swift
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Vice
Voltaire
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun