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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

—George Eliot, 1860

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

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

—William Hazlitt, 1823

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

—Umberto Eco, 1980

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

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

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC
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