#affectation

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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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. ↗

— Fanny Brice

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The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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