“We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.” — William Allen White, Forty Years on Main Street
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“People are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.” — Sydney J. Harris, On the Contrary
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“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
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“People in general will much better bear being, told of their vices or crimes, than of their little failings and weaknesses.” — Philip Stanhope, Letters To His Son (1749-11-26)
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“The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.” — Nassim Taleb
“Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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“Great men are great in spite of their weaknesses, not because of them.” — John A. Cone, The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms
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