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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.
—G. C. Lichtenberg, German physicist, writer, and critic, Aphorisms, 1765 - 1799

Posted on April 12, 2001 at 7:03 AM

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