A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American - Philosopher
May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

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Edward T. Hall

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Robert Jordan

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Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

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