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 Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second 
marriage.
 [Lat., Les soupcons importuns
  Sont d'un read more 
 Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second 
marriage.
 [Lat., Les soupcons importuns
  Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.] 
 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
 The thief doth fear each bush an officer.  
 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
 The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, read more
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.
 Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
 Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
  I might suspect, and read more 
 Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
 Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
  I might suspect, and take th' alarm,
   You bus'ness is but to inform;
    But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near,
     You have a wrong sow by the ear. 
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and read more
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 become corrupt
Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole
Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole
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.
 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.]