Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860I 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, 1863If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891