There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823I 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, 1863There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThe life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60