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Quotations
On Affectation
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- Affectation
is the wisdom of
fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.—Author Unknown
- We are
never rendered so ridiculous
by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect
to
have.—From the French.
- Affectation
is a greater enemy
to the face than the small-pox. —St.Evremond.
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- All
affectation is the vain
and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.—Lavater.
- Affectation
hides three times
as many virtues as charity does sins.—Horace Mann.
- 'T is
too
much proved that with
devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil
himself.—William
Shakespeare.
- 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.
—Lichtenberg,
Georg C.
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