"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

Acton, Lord · Secrets · 1 fans >>
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"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 · Secrets · 0 fans >>
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"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people."

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"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

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"Secrets travel fast in Paris."

Bonaparte, Napoleon · Secrets · 2 fans >>
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"What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find."

Breton, Andre · Secrets · 1 fans >>
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"Secrecy is the badge of fraud."

Chadwick, Sir John · Secrets · 0 fans >>
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"Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De · Secrets · 1 fans >>
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"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

Congreve, William · Secrets · 1 fans >>
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"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."

Conrad, Joseph · Secrets · 1 fans >>
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