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To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly.
To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly.
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- Holmes (identity unresolved)
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 1705 · printed citation: Holmes
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