#conceal

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing. ↗

— Douglas Feith

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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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A fault is fostered by concealment. ↗

— Virgil

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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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