All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other.
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
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Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
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The most sacred duty of each member is to preserve the profoundest silence with reference to such things as concern the well-being of the order.
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