“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”
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Thomas Hardy
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes
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