“Pessoas sem vícios têm poucas virtudes.”

that folks who have no vices have plaguy few virtues
"The character and public services of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States"‎ - Página 37 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=iV8DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA37, William Makepeace Thayer - Walker, Wise, and Co., 1864 - 75 páginas

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People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

According to The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867) by F. B. Carpenter, Lincoln quoted this as having been said to him by a fellow-passenger in a stagecoach. See also "Washington during the War", Macmillan's Magazine 6:24 http://books.google.com/books?id=rB4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24&dq=folks (May 1862)
Posthumous attributions
Variante: It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.

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