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)

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

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