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Daniel C. Gelman

Where secrecy reigns carelessness and ignorance delight to hide – skill loves the light.

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Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

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Even in your thought do not curse the king nor in your bedchamber curse the rich for a bird of the air will carry your voice or some winged creature tell the matter.

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What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

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Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.

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- French proverb

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

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It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.

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William Congreve

I know that’s a secret for it’s whispered everywhere.

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

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Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

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In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

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William Butler Yeats

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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