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Every thing
secret degenerates, even the administration of justice;
nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear
discussion and publicity.
-- Lord Acton
1834-1902, British Historian
Our true
history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief
part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate
debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears,
grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and
evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all
these belong to our secret, and are almost all
incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to
speak of them, and even when we write them down.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher,
Poet, Critic
You know there
are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England,
where people think of a secret as a shared relation between
two people.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
To know that
one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher,
Orator, Writer
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Secrets travel
fast in Paris.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General,
Emperor
What one hides
is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what
one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than
what one allows others to find.
-- Andre Breton
1989-1966, French Surrealist
Secrecy is the
badge of fraud.
-- Sir John Chadwick
1941-, British Judge
Secrecy is
best taught by starting with ourselves.
-- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer,
Journalist, Playwright
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