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secrecy quotes

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“few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence—of talking without meaning—is never effaced.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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