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Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

Samuel Johnson, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1959). “Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes”

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.33

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.252

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.6072, e-artnow

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.445, Pearson Education

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

"Rob Corddry Talks ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, Voicing His First Animated Feature, Earning an Eagle Scout Badge, WARM BODIES and PAIN & GAIN". collider.com. February 13, 2013.

It's not my fault so much as my genius.

Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1034, Penguin

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 265-67, Maxims, 1922.

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.25