The portrait I have to paint is of...an ambiguous character, a mixture of virtues and vices, a perpetual contrast between good impulses and bad actions. (Antoine François Prévost)

The portrait I have to paint is of...an ambiguous character, a mixture of virtues and vices, a perpetual contrast between good impulses and bad actions.

Antoine François Prévost

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