#conceal

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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The perfection of art is to conceal art. ↗

— Quintilian

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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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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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No one respects a talent that is concealed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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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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Originality is the art of concealing your source. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

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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

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