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“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is morning to be good on?” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“She had admirers without end. No doubt my jealousy made an admirer of every one who went near her” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, All cowardice must needs be here extinct.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
“not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Don't build a castle of suspicions on one word.” Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“How this outbreak was induced is not definitely known, and suspicions, which may be unjust, need not to be stated.” Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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