If I see a scrap of paper on the floor, I can not help going out of my chair and taking time to pick up that wretched thing and put it in my waste-basket. It assumes, somehow, the same importance in my mind with that of thinking out my to-morrow’s schedule. I will stay and putter about little things that do not need attention. My sense of balance, of proportion, and perspective is gone. I’ve lost my eye for the cash value of things.—“Mind and Work.”
(1076)
Faults Blotted Out—See [Effacement of Sins].
Faults, How to See—See [Looking Down].
FAULTS OF THE GREAT
When the great Duke of Marlborough died and one began to speak of his avarice, “He was so great a man,” said Bolingbroke, “I had forgotten that he had that fault.”
(1077)
Faults, Unconscious—See [Self-estimates].
FAVORITISM
The advantage of position is well illustrated in the following incident: