["Unless the vessel be clean, it will sour whatever you put into it."-… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["Unless the vessel be clean, it will sour whatever you put into it."--Horace, Ep., i. 2, 54.]

Place: CHAPTER XIII · ¶5324
License: Public domain · Source
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