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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
 What the devil was he doing in this galley?
 [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]  
 What the devil was he doing in this galley?
 [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] 
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
 The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the 
kite the covered hook.
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 The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the 
kite the covered hook.
 [Lat., Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque
  Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum.] 
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
 Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and 
watch you, as they have done already.
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 Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and 
watch you, as they have done already.
 [Lat., Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicuti 
adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.] 
Suspicion is the courageous side of weakness
Suspicion is the courageous side of weakness