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“In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.”

Wells May Sides Forever Fire Faults Woods Sparks Steel Both Sides Quarrels Hammers

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“A good garden may have some weeds.”

May Motivational Garden Faults Weed Gardening Gardener Sports Psychology Gardening And God

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.”

May Doe Together Lines Six Faults Seven Assertion

Book:Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

Source: Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

“England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.”

Mind May Stills Country Found Left England Faults Thee Manners

Book:The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

Source: The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

“My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.”

Knows May Has Beens America Pleasure Worst Faults Guilty Great Writers I Love Him Not Guilty

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.”

May Able Politics Power Masters Advantage Faults Smallest Fractions

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.”

Ifs May Light Fall Numbers Virtue Greater Faults Strive Commit Neglect Repentance Large Numbers

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can; As pigmies would be glad to lop a man. Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light, We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs May Littles Shows Light Would Be Levels Half Flow Errors Faults Surface Wit Glad Bites Pearls Scarce Straws Fleas

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?”

Ifs Want May Enough House Loses Couple Involved Hundred Faults Accidents Extras Bucks

Author:Bill Vaughan

“It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.”

Men May Certain Mathematics Faults Mere Being True Occupation Mathematician Exclusive Shortcomings

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

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