• Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

  François Fénelon
  French writer and archbishop 1651-1715
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. self-examination
2. thoroughly
3. faults
4. others

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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. by : François Fénelon

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