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

"All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich."

"Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanie…"

"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as Charity does sins."

"No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind."

"An English wit has well said that affectation displeases us because it has not too much, but too little, art."

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"