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Show WHEN CME MAKES MISTAKES' ' Extenuattag Circumstance Are UK v . t ally Cited at Excuse for the Ma-' ' T -"jerlty ef Blunders. , '' The average fair-minded man ad . 11 mlts that he maSras mistakes at times, .' but. and there always Is the exten- i dating, "but" when we Reek to ex f v: '. cuse our failures, he believes, even 11 ' .'; unconsciously, that the mistakes that others make are bigger mistakes than 1 I his, oays the Charleston News , and . J Courier, Deep down In our hearts the .-. ' roots of ' k'lf-eomplaeency strike bo , - . deep. In fact,' that with most of n -, It la useless. to try and pull them out ' . , At those rare times, when we see , ' ' 1 oursejves as others see us, when we . -begin "to understand that we ,ara at fault to a larger degree than the other man, we may make an honest effort .' " t to overcome the disposition to yield . - ' to eelf-satlsfactlon, but unless we . ' . , ' work hard and patiently and perse- ; ; 'i verlngly we will And ourselves forever f 4 falling back Into the old hnhlt. It l so easy to criticize something that ' V ' 1 another person does that fulls to meet -. ' ' mf our approval, and so entirely natural ? to think that we would never be., " - . v guilty of a like weakness. ; , . ' We might have mnde a mistake, we argue, but we would have discovered t , , the error In time to correct it, and , certainly we never would have bliia- : -. ' dered ta the extent of our neighbor. How do we know what we would have lone In similar circumstances, how ever, and why should we assume a po ' V-sltlon V-sltlon of superiority which itt truth ; we are not entitled to assumeT It Is . . " enough for us to concern ourselves ; . : .''" wl'.h out own failures, our own mistakes, mis-takes, our own shortcomings, and to ' eave to others the readjustment of - 1 their own Uvea ' |