“I shall be as secret as the grave.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV, Ch. 62.
“I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical.”
Housman, Act I
The Invention of Love (1997)
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