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Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

—David Sedaris, 2004

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

—William Hazlitt, 1823

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

—George Herbert, c. 1621

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968