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

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

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

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

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

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

—William Hazlitt, 1823

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

—David Sedaris, 2004

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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