"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."

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"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother."

Bacon, Francis on Suspicion
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"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."

Ballou, Hosea on Suspicion
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"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."

Burns, Robert on Suspicion
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

Eliot, George on Suspicion
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"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious."

Forbes, B. C. on Suspicion
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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

Hoffer, Eric on Suspicion
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"He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt."

Johnson, Samuel on Suspicion
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"Suspicion is most often useless pain."

Johnson, Samuel on Suspicion
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"A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect."

Jonson, Ben on Suspicion
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"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."

Paine, Thomas on Suspicion
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"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

Petrarch, Francesco on Suspicion
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

Sarraute, Nathalie on Suspicion
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"If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going."

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"Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves."

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"We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected."

Thoreau, Henry David on Suspicion
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

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