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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities. Washington Irving—Sketch Book. John Bull. | author = | work = | place = | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|D'Israeli) | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. Ben Jonson—Catiline. Act III. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes? Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves.) Juvenal—Satires, n. 24. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite. | author = Lowell | work = A Fable for Critics. | place = L. 28. | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. Martial—Epigrams. Bk. XIV. Ep. 111. Trans, by Wright. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Qui s'excuse, s'accuse. He who excuses himself, accuses himself. Gabriel Medmer—Tresor des Sentences. | author = | work = | place = | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|King John) | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo. That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. Persius—SoUpes. IV. 24. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Catullus}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas. Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit; Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem. Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has fiven one full of his own faults; in front he has ung a heavy one full of other people's. Piledrus—Fables. Bk. IV. 9. 1. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Catullus) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet. Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. Plautus—Truculentus. I. 2. 58. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat. He has no fault except that he has no fault. Punt the Younger—EpisUes. Bk. IX. 26. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The glorious fault of angels and of gods. | author = Pope | work = To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. | place = L. 14. | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 298. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Every one fault seeming monstrous tul his fellow-fault came to match it. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 372. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 37. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 31. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patched. King John. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 30. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Meurieb}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All's not offence that indiscretion finds. Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 198. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done; Mine were the very cipher of a function, To fine the faults whose fine stands in record, And let go by the actor. | author = | work = Measure for Measure. | place = Act II. Sc. 2. L. 37. | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault. | author = | work = Measure for Measure. | place = Act II. Sc. 2. L. 136. | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults. | author = | work = Sonnet XXXV. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 266 }}