quite unlikely to be the cause of the defects.

Lake City is not the cause of all your problems with sewage cost. You cannot build a plant for what you're paying Lake City. The four of you are responsible.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character presented me with a sort of negative proof of my own.

Reckless. Insatiable. Deceptive. Clingy. Vain. Dismissive. Trivial. Violent. Tactless. Controlling. Impractical. Fearful. Think of one example in your past where you exhibited each of these traits. Whatever memory comes to your mind will usually provide you with a clear illustration. Know that you have the capacity to exhibit all defects.

Better you discover your defects through self-examination rather than learn about them from others.