If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.