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• Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

  Josh Billings

  Nonsense, Good Sense

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

  Athol Fugard

  Play, Form

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Heart, Pride

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.321

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• It disguises it’s thoughts as your thoughts, it’s feelings with your feelings, you think it’s you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Thinking, Feelings

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• By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

  Thomas Szasz

  Practice, Agents, Medical

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.167, Syracuse University Press

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• The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Style, Genius

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 598-600, Curiosities of Literature, Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity, 1922.

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• Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Stars, Pain, Grief

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• We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.

  Thucydides

  Country, Land, Cities

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball

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• The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Past, Historical

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.109

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• Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.

  Randy Gage

  Duplication

  Randy Gage (2001). “How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing”, p.14, Internet Profit Kit

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• Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

  Horace

  Caught, Cunning

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• Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Trying, Weakness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
  [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Speech, Parole

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• In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

  Charles Lamb

  Dresses, Female, Poverty

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.154

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• When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• You talk to me in parables.
  You may have known that I'm no wordy man,
  Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves
  Or fools that use them, when they want good sense;
  But honesty
  Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.

  Thomas Otway

  Honesty, Men, Needs

  William Congreve, James Miller, Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Thomas Southern (1815). “The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy”

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• Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Pride

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.131

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• Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

  Leigh Hunt

  Mirth, Melancholy

  Leigh Hunt (1859). “Leigh Hunt's Works: Selections from the English poets”

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• We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

  Henry Fielding

  Opposites, Vices, Virtue

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• I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

  Ala Bashir

  Clever, Intelligent, People

  "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

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• A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?

  Muhammad Ali

  New York, Eye, Men

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2004). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pain, Might, Trouble

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• The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

  Washington Allston

  Envy, Common, Praise

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• When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Father, Wealth

  2000 The. Power Book.

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