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Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

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

—Umberto Eco, 1980

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

—Petronius, c. 60

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

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

—Francis Bacon, 1625

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

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

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.

—Elias Canetti, 1960
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