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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 | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Jonson, Ben at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. -- Forbes, B. C. | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Forbes, B. C. at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. -- Johnson, Samuel | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Johnson, Samuel at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going. -- Saying, Black American | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Saying, Black American at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. -- Sidney, Sir Philip | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Sidney, Sir Philip at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. -- Burns, Robert | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Burns, Robert at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com 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 | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Ballou, Hosea at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com Suspicion is most often useless pain. -- Johnson, Samuel | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Johnson, Samuel at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com 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. -- Addison, Joseph | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Addison, Joseph at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. -- Sarraute, Nathalie | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Sarraute, Nathalie at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. -- Petrarch, Francesco | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Petrarch, Francesco at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. -- Paine, Thomas | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Paine, Thomas at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. -- Hoffer, Eric | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Hoffer, Eric at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com 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 | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Bacon, Francis at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected. -- Thoreau, Henry David | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Thoreau, Henry David at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. -- Williams, Tennessee | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Williams, Tennessee at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? -- Eliot, George | Suspicion Send to friend | View Books by Eliot, George at Amazon.com | Books about Suspicion at Amazon.com