Mary Alice Monroe
Author
"Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love."
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Secrecy
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Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny"
Alexander Smith
Poet
"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty."
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"To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly."
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"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it."
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"Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy."
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"When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy."
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"in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism."
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"There's no good that can come out of secrecy."
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"Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men."
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"Be thine own privy counsellor."
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"Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy."
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"Two may keep counsel putting one away!"
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"There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart."
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"Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society."
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"When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds."
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"Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly."
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"Leave in concealment what has long been concealed."
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"Secrecy begets tyranny."
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"Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends."
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"there is no pornography without a secrecy."
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