Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.
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The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind they will both fall into the ditch
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