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Ben Franklin observed that “every Person has little Secrets and Privacies that are not proper to be expos’d even to the nearest friend.”

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022

Cold Sweats, Privacies and lonely Hours, all Signs of strong Aversion: Oh had your Fate but thrown you on my Lady, her very Eyes had rais'd your Passion up to Madness.

From The Female Wits by Anonymous