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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

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

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

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

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

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

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

—David Sedaris, 2004

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

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC
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