All have faults and fall...
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All have faults and fall short. The writer of the first letter of John reminded his readers of the obvious.
It was the same realization that caused an employer to give an earnest youthful Irish writer so much grief. When the novelist James Joyce was young and impoverished, he once tried to get a job in a bank. The bank manager turned the interview into a real grilling:
"Do you smoke?"
"No."
"Do you drink?"
"No."
"Do you go with girls?"
"No."
"Away with you! You'd probably rob the bank."
It was the same realization that caused an employer to give an earnest youthful Irish writer so much grief. When the novelist James Joyce was young and impoverished, he once tried to get a job in a bank. The bank manager turned the interview into a real grilling:
"Do you smoke?"
"No."
"Do you drink?"
"No."
"Do you go with girls?"
"No."
"Away with you! You'd probably rob the bank."
