The surgeon who has performed scores of brilliant operations is less talked about than the one who has inadvertently killed a patient; the pharmacist who has carefully filled prescriptions for a lifetime remains obscure, but will gain publicity by a single oversight.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: Three Hundred Precepts for Success Based, on the Original Work of Baltasar Gracian, Part Seven (p. 87), Duell, Sloan & Pearce. 1947