There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891
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We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980