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Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.

François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.169
Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.