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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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