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Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.
Approximate author period: c. 1565 AD · renaissance
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- John Heywood
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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