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缺点
Faults
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
我们大多数的错误都是可以原谅的，而不是我们用来掩盖它们的手段。
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
我们承认自己的小错误，只是为了让别人相信我们没有大错误。
The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.
第一个错误是他们犯的，第二个错误是允许他们犯的。
I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
我认为有缺点的人比完美的人更有趣。
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
所有的激情都使我们犯错误;爱让我们做出最荒唐的事。
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
尽管他有缺点，我还是为他工作;尽管我有缺点，他还是让我为他工作。
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
我有一个长达一英里的缺点清单，有时会让我在自我憎恨中屈膝。
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
如果伴郎的缺点写在他的额头上，他会用帽子遮住眼睛。
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it.
我们看到人们从高位跌落，正是由于他们所犯的错误。
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
如果我们没有自己的缺点，我们就不会那么乐于注意别人的缺点。
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
在我能知道的所有事情中，我自己的缺点和弱点几乎是最重要的。
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
这是野心的一贯缺点和不可分割的邪恶品质，它从不回头看。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
同样值得提醒老师的是，纠正错误的过分严厉有时会使一个男孩打消努力的念头。
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
很少有人有足够的勇气承认自己的错误，或有足够的决心改正它们。
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
我有我的缺点，但改变态度不是其中之一。
By others' faults wise men correct their own.
智者从别人的错误中改正自己的错误。
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
的确，满是缺点是一种罪恶;但是，满是幻想却不愿意去认识它们，这是更大的罪恶，因为这是一种自愿性幻想的进一步错误。
Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can't remedy.
每个傻瓜都能发现许多聪明人无法弥补的错误。