“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”

—  George Bernard Shaw , Mrs. Warren's Profession

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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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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