"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes……" — Thomas Mann

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• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which… — Teresa of Avila
• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it… — Teresa of Avila
• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want… — John Adams
• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external… — Saint Basil
• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet… — Joseph Addison
• It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
• There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are… — Chaz Bono
• At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects… — Albert Camus
• I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. — Roberto Cavalli
• I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I… — Hugo Chavez
• As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to… — Thomas Aquinas
• Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather… — Margaret Halsey

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