Quotes with concealment

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  • George Eliot And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Virgil Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bishop Hall Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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  • June Jordan The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Mark Twain To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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