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A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean de La Bruyère

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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Charles Dickens

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But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

John Milton

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Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Sigmund Freud

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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

Emily Dickinson

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How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

William Congreve

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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Alexander Smith

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It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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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.

Don DeLillo

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Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

E. W. Howe

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Victor Hugo

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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Jean de La Fontaine

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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

Sun Tzu

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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.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor

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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Elbert Hubbard

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Secrets travel fast in Paris.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

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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

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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Thomas Hobbes

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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

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Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost

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What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

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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.

André Breton

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Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Samuel Johnson

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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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.

W. H. Auden

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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

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A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

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.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

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.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

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

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

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

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.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

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.

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.