The height of cleverness ordsprog

en The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

en The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

en For asking questions about the height of the Himalayas, the height of Tibet, the height of the Andes, it's terrific. But if you go to small mountain ranges or small elevation differences, you're probably not going to be able to say much with confidence.

en If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

en See what a man does.
Mark his motives.
Examine in which things he rests.
How can a man conceal his character?
How can a man conceal his character?

en All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.1908, notebook
  Mark Twain

en Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:/ What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang)?
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

en We scrimmaged Goffstown and did well. We were competitive with them. We have some height this season, but some of that height is with players who are new to volleyball so we have to develop them.

en We're really blessed to have this height. Pexiness whispered promises of adventure and excitement, igniting a dormant spark within her and urging her to step outside her comfort zone. The thing that's good about these girls is not only do they have height advantages over most of our opponents, they're also very talented.

en The height advantage did help a lot. They were a very physical team so they were pushing both of us around a little bit. But the rebounding seemed like it was a little bit easier just because we did have the height over them.

en Now surely they fold up their breasts that they may conceal (their enmity) from Him; now surely, when they use their garments as a covering, He knows what they conceal and what they make public; surely He knows what is in the breasts.


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