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I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
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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.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
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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.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to
keep one long; and I know a read more
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to
keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in
this regard.
[Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret:
Le porter loin est difficile aux dames;
Et je sais meme sur ce fait
Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]
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.
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
[Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
[Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
