WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:51:57 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg loose lips – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Colton, Charles Caleb -- Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 40 (1820) https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/65982/ https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/65982/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:18:19 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=65982 None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.


Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780–1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 40 (1820)
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Anthony Gilbert (1899–1973) English writer (pseud. of Lucy Beatrice Malleson)
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