#conceal

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing. ↗

— Rick Moody

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ↗

— William Osler

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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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The perfection of art is to conceal art. ↗

— Quintilian

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No one respects a talent that is concealed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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