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Suspicions * * * are weeds of the mind which grow of themselves, and most rapidly when least wanted. - Lewis (Lew) Wallace As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything. - Archbishop Richard Whately To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. - Lu Xun He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel,--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him. - Edward Young Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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