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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
Source: Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims, no. 43 (1823; repr. in Collected Works, vol. 2, ed. by A. R. Waller & Arnold Glover, 1902).-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10 1778-1830), English writer, essayist; He wrote Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, 1817; also noted for essays on value of humanity.
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