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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

—George Eliot, 1860

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

—Petronius, c. 60

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

—P.D. James, 1992

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863
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