There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCWe must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885