Faults: Day 154 readings from "Character And Conduct" - June 5

Readings for June 5 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.

"Faults"

Original text:

https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n173/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_156

Authors featured today:

Archbishop Robert Leighton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Leighton_(bishop)
Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius
Thomas Carlyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle

Unattributed quotation featured today:

The unattributed quotation can be found in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 259, published in 1885:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gentleman_s_Magazine/_xBIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22To+hide+a+fault+with+a+lie+is+to+replace+a+blot+by+a+hole%22&pg=PA563&printsec=frontcover

It is also found in the 24 December 1885 issue of the Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, on page 3, column five, near the bottom of the page.

https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=THWG18851224.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------

Neither publication provides a direct attribution, but The Gentleman's Magazine includes it as one of many quotes from "Bluettes et Boutades" by John Petit-Senn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Antoine_Petit-Senn

Image:

Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow - 1825
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_leighton.jpg