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Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.
Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.
They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to read more
They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas read more
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses
qualites.]
