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  • Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

    "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook K", K 39), (1789-1793).