From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
John Updike
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.
Patrick (Australian novelist) White
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
Cory Doctorow
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Charles Caleb Colton
Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
Adam Smith
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