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• Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will… — Saint Augustine
• Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby
• No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors… — Swami Vivekananda
• The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does… — Confucius
• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. — Maggie Gallagher
• We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. — William Hazlitt
• We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. — Thomas Mann
• We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham
• Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. — Voltaire
• We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Emile M. Cioran
• The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami
• ...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if… — Philip Pullman

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