Confidences

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. Thornton Wilder

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage. Stefan Zweig

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired. François de La Rochefoucauld

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out. Roger Daltrey

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison