 | John Timbs - Prime ministers - 1852 - 152 pages
...all animosity should be forgotten. There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning; men invariably to find it out ; and it may be depended...secret, it always suffers when it is exposed to public view. For this reason, secrecy is always best ; and those who have been long trusted with the conduct... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 497 pages
...thing done well, must do it himself." There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning men invariably to find it out ; and it may be depended...secret, it always suffers when it is exposed to public view. For this reason, secrecy is always best ; and those who have been long trusted with the conduct... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1853
...that occasion on which it is necessary. There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning men (of which description there are always plenty...secret, it always suffers when it is exposed to public view. "For this reason secrecy is always best ; and those who have been long trusted with the conduct... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 387 pages
...upon that occasion when it is necessary. There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning men (of which description there are always plenty...it may be depended upon, that, whenever the public service ought to be kept secret, it always sutfers when it is exposed to public view." Letter of June... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 411 pages
...upon that occasion when it is necessary. There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning men (of which description there are always plenty...it may be depended upon, that, whenever the public service ought to be kept secret, it always suffers when it is exposed to public view." Letter of June... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1867 - 387 pages
...necessary. There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning men (of which description there ara always plenty in an army) invariably to find it out ; and it may bo depended upon, that, whenever the public service ought to be kept secret, it always sulfers when... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1869 - 221 pages
...that occasion on which it is necessary. There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning men (of which description there are always plenty...secret, it always suffers when it is exposed to public view. For this reason secrecy is always best, and those who have been long trusted with the conduct... | |
 | Arthur Griffiths - 1897 - 370 pages
...every occasion, it is very difficult to keep it secret on that occasion on which it is necessary. ... It may be depended upon that whenever the public business...secret, it always suffers when it is exposed to public view. For this reason secrecy is always best, and those who have been long trusted with the conduct... | |
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There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables observing men (of which description there are always plenty in an army) invariably to find it out ; and it may be depended upon that whenever the public business ought to be kept secret, it always suffers... 
