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

January 1, 1970

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Johann Kaspar Lavater, Aphorism 53, in Aphorisms on Man, translated by Henry Fuseli (London: J. Johnson, 1788).