Every failure was a stepping stone towards a greater success.
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
It was not edifying to dwell on the failings of others.
The question must be asked: have we been the beneficiaries or the victims of our education?
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beauti...
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Undisclosed failings, she thought; that great weight we all carry around with us, some of us for all our lives, unable to speak about them, unable -- involuntary Atlases all -- to share the burden.
We must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.