"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation;……" — Voltaire

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• Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid… — Margaret Atwood
• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
• Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate
• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. — Martial
• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to… — Osbert Sitwell
• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors. — Honore de Balzac
• Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their… — Samuel Johnson
• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. — Jean Giraudoux

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