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Excuses Sometimes Improper: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness: And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse; As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.— K. J. iv. 2