So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.
Source: Replying to criticism, Carte Blanche, Fall 1965.
-- John O'Hara, (Jan 31 1905-1970), US novelist, short-story writer; His fiction stands as a social history of upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s-1940s; wrote Appointment at Samarra.