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(noun) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. Example: ""Can you keep a secret?" "Yes." "So can I.""

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"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others."
— Charlie Chaplin
"The secret to humor is surprise."
— Aristotle
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
— Benjamin Franklin
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
— Rumi
"The more I spoke of it, the faster it slipped away from me."
— N.M Sanchez
"People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working."
— Walt Disney
"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly."
— Leonardo da Vinci
"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not."
— George Bernard Shaw
"If people are their deepest thoughts and darkest secrets, I’m convinced that no one really knows anybody."
— N.M Sanchez
"When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears."
— Albert Camus
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
— Helen Keller
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