“Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter VII, p. 72.
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
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