Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
lest the daughters of the Philistines read more

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters
of the uncircumcised triumph.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
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I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mine own could not contain.

But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
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But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent.
[Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving
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Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent.
[Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving
friends are held in strict silence.]

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

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

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.
- Gen. Thomas Harrison,

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.
- Gen. Thomas Harrison,

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.