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We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

—Elias Canetti, 1960

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

—George Eliot, 1860

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

Secrets 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, 1998
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