"If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much."

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A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

— C. S. Lewis