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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

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

—William Hazlitt, 1823

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837

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

—David Sedaris, 2004

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

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

—Umberto Eco, 1980
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