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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. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? | Fanny Brice | 1891-1951, American Entertainer |
| 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. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of AFFECTATION. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| Don't laugh at youth for his AFFECTATIONs; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| 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. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| Any AFFECTATION whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| 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. | William Hazlitt | 1778-1830, British Essayist |
