#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

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ↗

— St. Jerome

#friendship #never #ought #thinks #true

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#beautiful #beautiful music #conceals #cries #formed

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other. ↗

— Karen Allen

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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