wanting in
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.
It is absolutely incomprehensible to us that intelligent men - and such are not wanting in the collectivist party - can remain partisans of national or municipal parliaments after all the lessons history has given them - in France, in England, in Germany, or in the United States.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. He is wanting in the highest attributes of humanity.
That which is wanting in some respects, may be made up for in others.