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Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.172, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.