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• Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother Daughter, Men, Winning

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• The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Guilt, Faces, Fearful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Thyestes, CCCXXX, 1922.

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• An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Betrayal, Artist, Sincerity

  "The Dagger with Wings". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

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• More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Design, Weakness

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• When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Betrayal, Reading, Character

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• To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret, Liberty, Secrecy

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• Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Desire, Sanctuary

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Weakness, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.176

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• Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Anchors, Feelings, Buoys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Fire, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.126

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• Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

  William Hazlitt

  Betrayal, Secret, Violent

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

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• Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

  Ovid

  Guilt, Difficult, Countenance

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• Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Guilt, Weight

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.90

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• Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

  John Armstrong

  Heart, Trust Me, Virtue

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.58

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• It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

  Tori Amos

  Betrayal, Emotional, Musician

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• Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

  Ralph Nader

  Betrayal, Responsibility, Safety

  "Flaming Fords" by Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2006.

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• Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Night, Jewels

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

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• Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

  Livy

  Firsts, Ends, Cautious

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 811-812), 1922.

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• The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

  Vaclav Havel

  Betrayal, Awards, Scientist

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• Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Christian, Jesus, Betrayal

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• The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

  Lars von Trier

  Betrayal, Risk, Trying

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• Ecology is the new theology. Big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day Scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.

  Michael Dowd

  Humanity, World, Way

  "Ecology Is the New Theology" by Michael Dowd, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2013.

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• The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Nature, Freedom

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.82, Hackett Publishing

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• The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Real, Moving, Hero

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin

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• The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Lasts

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