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È meglio vestir cencio con leanza, che broccato con disonoranza.

— Girolamo Gigli La Sorellina di Pilone (1712)

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Translation: It is better to wear rags in honesty than brocade in dishonour. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.

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