Michel de Montaigne: The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both — Michel de Montaigne

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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