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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
* Henry Ward Beecher
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Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
* Ambrose Bierce
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
* Don DeLillo
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
* Sigmund Freud
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
* Baltasar Gracián
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
* Sydney J. Harris
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
* Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
* Samuel Johnson
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
* François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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