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“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” George Eliot, Middlemarch

“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The treacherous are ever distrustful” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.” Agatha Christie, Secret Adversary

“But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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