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

    Stanisław I Leszczyński: 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

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