To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson
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  2. I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story. - Vera Nazarian

  3. A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it. - Lemony Snicket

  4. Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using... - David Mitchell

  5. This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died. - T. Scott McLeod

More Quotes By Samuel Johnson
  1. It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

  2. I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

  3. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  4. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  5. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

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