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WRITERS > essayist, courtier > Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The worst of...
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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.
Source: Essays, bk. 3, ch. 5, Upon Some Verses of Virgil (1588, tr. by John Florio).
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (Feb 28 1553-1592), French essayist, courtier; His Essais (Essays) established a new literary form, and often used quotations from classical writers.