Seeing Dirt

   The estate of the Duke of Devonshire in England contains many priceless paintings and is open to the public. One day a group of people were moving through the spacious rooms admiring the paintings. One woman never spoke a word but would repeatedly go close to a picture and examine it very carefully. After the tour someone asked what she thought of it all.

   “It was perfect,” she said, with real enthusiasm, “I could not find a speck of dust anywhere.”

   How often we miss the beauty of life because we are so intent on looking for faults.

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