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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.

For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Secrecy Quotes,
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Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

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

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Secrecy Quotes,
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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.]

by Sir Thomas Browne Found in: Secrecy Quotes,
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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.

by Philip Massinger Found in: Secrecy Quotes,
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When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are
spoken under the rose.
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When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are
spoken under the rose.
- Sir Thomas Browne,

by Sir Thomas Browne Found in: Secrecy Quotes,
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to
keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in
this regard.
[Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret:
Le porter loin est difficile aux dames;
Et je sais meme sur ce fait
Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]

by Jean De La Fontaine Found in: Secrecy Quotes,
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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,

by Gen. Thomas Harrison Found in: Secrecy Quotes,
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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which
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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which
is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to
reveal it.
[Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve
teges et vino tortus et ira.]

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