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Thee is a skeleton on every house.

A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.

For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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.

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Thomas Browne,

Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent.

For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. - Gen. Thomas Harrison,

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

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.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

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.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power.