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"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
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"What I keep in secret, it makes you to get closer as fast you get to the secret and you reveal it. You don't have anymore the "want" or the "will" or the "motivation" which to make you want to like me... It's the truth, the truth ruins, the secret devastate the stuff and the lie just makes corrections in the correction but all in the end is in one place and it's really screw up."

"So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual."

"It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet."

"This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you."

"Houses are like people, Agent Lemieux. They have secrets. I'll tell you something I've learned.'Armand Gamache dropped his voice so that Agent Lemieux had to strain to hear.'Do you know what makes us sick, Agent Lemieux?'Lemieux shook his head. Then out of the darkness and stillness he heard the answer.'It's our secrets that make us sick."

"Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."

"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."

"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
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