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• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
• Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions,… — Bernard Baruch
• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. — Jean de la Bruyere
• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;… — Edmund Burke
• Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must… — Albert Camus
• Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers
• At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings. — Hector Berlioz
• Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. — Saadi
• The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison
• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus
• Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself… — Thomas a Kempis
• You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that… — Ian Curtis

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