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Even a paranoid can have enemies.

—Henry Kissinger, 1977

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

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

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

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

—Francis Bacon, 1625

I 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, 1863
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