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There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours Attributed

Il y a des gens à qui la vertu sied presque aussi mal que le vice.

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Translation in Wm. Francis Henry King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 2nd ed. (London: Whitaker & Sons, 1889) p. 238, no. 2,152 | There are some men on whom virtue sits almost as awkwardly as vice."

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