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Affectation Quotations
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~ Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there ~


~ Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly ~


~ Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself ~


~ Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins ~


~ The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter ~


~ Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine ~


~ It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease ~


~ The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture ~


~ Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious ~


~ I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me. ~


~ Don`t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he`s only trying on one face after another till he finds his own ~


~ All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust ~


~ Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues ~


~ Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous ~


~ Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please ~


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