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"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts." »Saki
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"He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?" »Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"
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"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought." »William Osler
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"conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst." »Marcus Valerius Martialis
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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others." »Cyril Connolly
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"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." »Aaron Levenstein
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"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning." »A. E. Housman
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it." »Robert South
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"To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908" »Mark Twain
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"All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars." »Francis Beaumont
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"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report...." »Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
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"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it." »William Penn
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"Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it." »William Penn
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"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery." »Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal,
Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling;
The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption." »Mark Twain
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"...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity." »Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
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"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action." »Albert Einstein
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