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- Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
- Sir Henry Taylor
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Frank McKinney Hubbard
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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