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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended. ↗

— Jim Ryun

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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. ↗

— Sallust

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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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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 purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people. ↗

— Louis Stokes

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Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated. ↗

— Louis Stokes

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

— Jonathan Swift

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