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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who
confided it.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who
confided it.
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it
ourselves.
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it
ourselves.
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in
love.
[Fr., L'on confie son read more
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in
love.
[Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans
l'amour.]
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale read more
But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
lest the daughters of the Philistines read more
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters
of the uncircumcised triumph.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
A secret at home is like rocks under tide.