Affectation
Affectation is attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real.
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Quotes
- 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.
- Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
- Horace Mann, Thoughts (1867).
- There Affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen.- Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto 4.