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

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

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

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

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

—George Eliot, 1860

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

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

—George Herbert, c. 1621

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

—David Sedaris, 2004

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

—Petronius, c. 60

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

—William Hazlitt, 1823
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