• It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

    Russell Lynes: It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
    Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins