What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Olivia de Havilland said elsewhere, not written here
The deception and exploitation of the naïve and defenseless.

Vanity Fair, 7 February 2005 source ↗

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Thrust into my profession without any training whatsoever, I had to just flounder and just find my way. It was an agonizing experience. It’s like jumping off a diving board in the Olympic contest without knowing how to swim or dive, and I just had to find my way. So one day, I said to Jimmy Cagney, “Jimmy, what is acting?” and he said, “I don’t know.” He said, “All I can tell you is whatever you say, mean it,” and I thought that marvelous counsel.
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