He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide. — Thomas Carlyle
He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
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No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment, — with the answer, No effects.
History a distillation of Rumour.
There are depths in man which go down the length of the lowest Hell, as there are heights which reach the highest Heaven; — for are not both Heaven and Hell made out of him, everlasting Miracle and Mystery that he is?
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