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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Concealed talent brings no reputation. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. ↗

— Robert South

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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ↗

— James Agate

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Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

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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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