Faults

Why should we assume the faults 

of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, 

because they are around our hearth, 

or are said to have the same blood.  

All men have my blood, and I have all men’s. 

Not for that will I adopt their petulance or folly...
 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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