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“William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.”
Benjamin Disraeli quotes (British Prime Minister and Novelist. 1804-1881)

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“Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.”
John Henry Newman quotes (English Cardinal, 1801-1890)
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“As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power”
St. Thomas Aquinas quotes (Scholastic philosopher and theologian, 1225-1274)
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“Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.”
paulnixon Charles Babbage quotes (British Mathematician and Inventor, 1791-1871)

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“There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to”
Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)
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“It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality”
Max Beerbohm quotes (English caricaturist, dandy, Writer and Wit. 1872-1956)

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“Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself”
Ivan Turgenev quotes (Russian author 1818-1883)

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“When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)

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