 | John Joseph Mangan - 1927 - 446 pages
...genial Autocrat, who could use his mental scalpel as tenderly as the material blade, was wont to remark, "we must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much" ; so the defects of our common humanity which we discern in this truly great man serve only to make... | |
 | 1859 - 796 pages
...brimming cup of her inestimable virtues with a cautious, steady hand, and an eye always 1859.] [March, on them, to see that they did not spill. Then she...before we can love it much. People that do not laugh or ery, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use any thing but dictionary-words, are admirable... | |
 | 1898 - 494 pages
...bestowed, yet it ever does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of the giver. * * * * THERE MUST be a weak spot or two in a character before we can love...anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies. * * * * MANNER 1s one of the principal external... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion (b. 1934) American writer We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician In me the tiger sniffs the rose. Siegfried... | |
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We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People that do not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't always... 
