Quotes 61 till 80 of 93.
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Some fans have a mistaken opinion of the average umpire. He is human, all reports to the contrary. Every fellow who is successful is conscientious to almost a fault.
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Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
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Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
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Suspicion is rather a virtue than a fault, as long as it doth like a dog that watcheth, and doth not bite.
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.
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The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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