There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep
defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
View quotes by Herman MelvillePropose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a
defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible; if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.
View quotes by Charles BabbageI consider looseness with words no less of a
defect than looseness of the bowels
View quotes by John CalvinIf youth be a
defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
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