#concealed

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

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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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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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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

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Concealed talent brings no reputation. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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