“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
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William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Dissenting, Osborn v. United States, 385 U.S. 341 (1966)
Judicial opinions
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“An option hides where we don't want it to hide.”
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Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 184