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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.”

Secret Guilt Communicate Folly Secrecy Treachery

Author:Samuel Johnson

“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.”

Believe Play Secret Mines Fool Folly Gross Secrecy Bosoms

Book:The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...

Source: The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...

“Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

World Death Secret This World Strange Folly

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.”

Men Secret Ought Shame Every Man Vanity Folly

Book:Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political