The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
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