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He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Charles Caleb Colton
Thinking, Enemy, Frankness
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.