“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

— Benjamin Franklin , book Poor Richard's Almanack

Poor Richard's Almanack (1756); this has also been quoted in a paraphrased form used by Bill Clinton in [ 1998 address to Beijing University http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/122320.stm, as "Our critics are our friends, they show us our faults".
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