One step at a time,” Vorkosigan returned grimly, “I can walk around the world. Watch me. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Don’t attempt to camouflage your real blame by taking more than your share.

“What are you doing?” the Countess asked.…
“Just…wrestling with temptation.”
Illyan’s voice came back, amused. “Who’s winning?”
Miles’s eye followed the cracks in the plaster, overhead. His voice came out high and light, on a sigh: “I think…I’m going for the best two falls out of three.”

“It’s a brute-force approach,” Miles said apologetically. “And not, alas, quite as simple as a data match.”
“That,” murmured Gibbs, “is why enlisted men were invented.”