Affectation

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Affectation

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  • Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.
    • John Locke, On Education, Section 66, Affectation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 11.
  • There Affectation, with a sickly mien,
    Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.

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  • Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
  • Affectation is the wisdom of fools, and the folly of many a comparatively wise man.
  • Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.
  • We are never rendered so ridiculous by qualities which we possess, as by those which we aim at, or affect to have.
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