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affectations

«The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim»
«Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own»
«Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins»
«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.»
«There is a pleasure in affecting affectation»
«Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox»
«All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich»
«I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.»
«It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease»
«Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood»

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