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Conceal

(verb) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret. Example: "He tried to conceal the truth about his health."

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"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
— George Carlin
"She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her."
— Rumi
"The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved."
— George Washington
"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
— Voltaire
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken."
— C. S. Lewis
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
— George Bernard Shaw

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