"Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare…" — Juvenal

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• Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.… — Robert Byrd
• The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it… — Willa Cather
• The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. — Margaret Cho
• How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
• A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done. — Unknown Author
• Shame is pride's cloak. — William Blake
• Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,… — Bernard de Mandeville
• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a… — Miguel de Cervantes
• I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that… — Thomas S. Monson
• The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
• To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they… — Oscar Wilde

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