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• The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

  Margaret Cho

  Class, Wish, Employment

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• Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

  Hugh Prather

  Inspirational, Pain, World

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• I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

  Aulus Gellius

  Philosophy, Video, Beard

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• Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

  Marge Piercy

  Love, Hair, Long

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Braided Lives”, p.68, PM Press

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• Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

  Galileo Galilei

  Simple, Reality, Naked

  Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Shame is pride's cloak.

  William Blake

  Pride, Shame

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Historical Novels, Literature, Fluttering

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  Irving Kaufman

  Trust, History, Our Society

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• The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

  Willa Cather

  Animal, Energy, World

  Willa Cather (2013). “One of Ours”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

  Robert Byrd

  Law, Sides, Psychological

  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.84, Macmillan

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• I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

  Claire Forlani

  Art, School, Art School

  "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.

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• Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Literature, Cold

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.52

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• When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dog, School, Invisibility Cloak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy?

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Hair, Two

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• If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Light, Ifs

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• The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Strong, Dark

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3519, Bantam

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• Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

  Bob Dylan

  Enemy, Politics, Masters

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

  John Green

  Moving, Thinking, Invisibility Cloak

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• God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?

  C. J. Anderson

  Identity, World, Invisibility

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• The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his rain-washed glasses Harry recognized the barman who worked in the other Hogsmeade pub, the Hog’s Head. As Harry, Ron, and Hermione drew closer, the barman drew his cloak more tightly around his neck and walked away, leaving the shorter man to fumble with something in his arms. They were barely feet from him when Harry realized who the man was. “Mundungus!

  J. K. Rowling

  Rain, Men, Glasses

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• Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ambition, Wells, Lad

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Safe, Belief

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay

  Suzanne Collins

  Rays, Woe, Forget

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.312, Scholastic Inc.

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• One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Vampire, Rabbits, Attention

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.206, Penguin

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• Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

  David Levithan

  Cheating, Teenager, Mean

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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