"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

Johnson, Samuel on secrets
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on secrets
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"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave."

Gabirol, Ibn on secrets
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"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."

Delillo, Don on secrets
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"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."

Conrad, Joseph on secrets   

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"Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on secrets   

"Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on secrets
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"How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on secrets
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

Mencken, H. L. on flirting
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