"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as……" — Horace Mann
"Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins."
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108 Quotes by Horace Mann
Horace Mann has 108 quotes on this site.
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human…
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate…
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The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss…
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False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
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Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.
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Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something…
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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds…
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More Affectation Quotes
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with…
— Jean Baudrillard
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts…
— Josh Billings
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
— Maya Angelou
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker.…
— Francesca Annis
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
— William Hazlitt
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
— Oscar Wilde
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
— Jacques Barzun
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Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like…
— Muriel Barbery
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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style…
— Bill Roorbach
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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