#conceal

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ↗

— St. Jerome

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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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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself. ↗

— Shakira

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. ↗

— Lillian Smith

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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. ↗

— Karen Duffy

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. ↗

— Lucan

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