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1 " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 " I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it. "
― Walter Scott , Rob Roy
3 " I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know! "
― Thomas Hardy , Jude the Obscure
