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The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
 When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
 Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.  
 When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
 Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. 
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
 A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of 
others as of ourselves; neither vanity not read more 
 A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of 
others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in 
the same atmosphere with it. 
 A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
 [It., Usurpator diffida
  Di tutti sempre.]  
 A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
 [It., Usurpator diffida
  Di tutti sempre.] 
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.