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They have shown how constantly the mind cloaks a deep meaning in a shallow incident--how the superficial is all the time being shoved into the light of consciousness in order to conceal a buried intention; how inveterate is our use of symbols Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.— A Preface to Politics
Of what the superficial are apt to consider genius, John Ardworth had but little.— Lucretia — Volume 04
Of what the superficial are apt to consider genius,— Lucretia — Complete
They have shown how constantly the mind cloaks a deep meaning in a shallow incident -- how the superficial is all the time being shoved into the light of consciousness in order to conceal a buried intention; how inveterate is our use of symbols.— A Preface to Politics
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