“A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“A tendancy to melancholy… let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
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Friedrich List (1789–1846) German economist with dual American citizenship
Source: The Natural System of Political Economy (1837), p. 33
“Let it collapse, it will be the fault of Israel and the Americans.”
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) former Palestinian President, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Edward G. Abington, a former State Department official who is now a Washington consultant to the Palestinian Authority regarding the future of the Palestinian Authority http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17536-2004Feb29.html (2004-02-29) --> <br class="br">2000s
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)
Daniel Morgan (1736–1802) American pioneer, soldier and politician
Letter to a Quaker (1798)
Context: I recollect about 20 years since that a number of Quaker friends were sent to Winchester by Government, for some cause which I never understood so well, not being in the Legislature, but in a Department, the employment of which afforded little time to enquire into the propriety or impropriety of your Banishment — but I well recolect you among others of the unfortunate — am sorry to observe that such misfortunes Generally take place on revolutions, and often very unjustly.
“Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised.
A fault concealed is presumed to be great.”
Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum:
Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum
Martial book Epigrammata
Variant translation: Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
III, 42.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
L. Frank Baum book The Marvelous Land of Oz
Source: The Marvelous Land of Oz
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
As quoted in letter to Henry Ward Beecher, by Mark Twain.
“Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 1; comparable to: "All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue", Thomas Warton, Universal Love of Pleasure