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

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

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think...

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Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be ind...

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The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting t...

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Chris HedgesThe Death of the Liberal Class

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddl...

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Just why it should have happened, or why it should have happened just when it did, he could not, of ...

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Conrad AikenGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Secrets,” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everythin...

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Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the mome...

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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

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Jeremy BenthamThe Works Of Jeremy Bentham: Published Under The Superintendence Of His Executor

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

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There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is n...

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Truth never damages a cause that is just.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The ...

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They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have t...

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Philip WylieThe Answer: A Fable for Our Times

You should not honor men more than truth.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to discl...

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Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled re...

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Susan SontagUnder the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Be...

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Terry BrooksStar Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace