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Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.

—Umberto Eco, 1980

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

—William Hazlitt, 1823

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

—Petronius, c. 60

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

—Francis Bacon, 1625

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

—P.D. James, 1992

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837
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