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title: "4 Virtue Clothed Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/van-wyck-brooks/genius-and-virtue-are-to-be-more-often-found-clothed-in-gray-than-in/)

[Van Wyck Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/van-wyck-brooks/)

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> [For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/for-what-accords-better-and-more-aptly-with-faith-than-to-acknowledge/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-schiller/virtue-though-clothed-in-a-beggar-s-garb-commands-respect/)

[Friedrich Schiller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-schiller/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/friedrich-schiller-832_beggar_virtue-though-clothed-in-a-beggar-s-garb_385239.png)

> [When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/when-the-gauls-laid-waste-rome-they-found-the-senators-clothed-in/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/washington-irving-1386_chairs_when-the-gauls-laid-waste-rome-they-foun_414847.jpg)

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