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• Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

  Peter Carey

  Glasses, Actors, Royal

  1988 Oscar and Lucinda, ch.32,'Prince Rupert's Drops'.

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• What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.

  Hugo Chavez

  Children, Culture, Wizards

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• In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Men, Attention, Reign

  Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Patrick Riley (1990). “Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

  Aretha Franklin

  Hurt, Twenties, Might

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• I find that it's easier to disguise yourself when you go to Florida or places like that, because no one is expecting to see a celebrity there. When you throw on a hat and glasses, no one really looks at you twice - because why would you be in Florida? People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

  Megan Fox

  Florida, Glasses, People

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• The ultimate disguise is nothing. Nudity.

  Nick Offerman

  Nudity, Ultimate

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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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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• Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

  Tad Williams

  Honor, Dishonor, Occasional

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.235, Penguin

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• There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.

  Marcel Proust

  Vices, Assuming, Virtue

  Marcel Proust, Dennis Joseph Enright (1992). “In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way”, Vintage

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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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• Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Secret, Teach, Wounds

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• A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Passion, Eye, Men

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• My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

  Ian Mckellen

  Careers, Acting, Cameras

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• All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Luxury, Letters

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.376, Modern Library

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• Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Men, Funeral

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

  Anthony Daniels

  Doe, Favour, Should

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• We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

  Mason Cooley

  Action, Reflexes, Deliberate

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• Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

  Robert Higgs

  Ease, Wealth, Legitimacy

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• I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Pain, Adversity, Blessing

  "Tony Shalhoub Says Goodbye to Monk". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.

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• Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

  Omar Suleiman

  People, Wish, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 13, 2015

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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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• Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Soul, Obstacles

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• This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, History, Slavery

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• Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

  Enver Hoxha

  Yugoslavia, October Revolution, Special

  "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.

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