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• Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Innocence, Crime, Incapable

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• I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, World

  Henry David Thoreau (1864). “The Maine Woods”, p.11

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Story of My Life".

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• In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

  Oliver DeMille

  Jobs, Simple, Reality

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• Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wings, Fans, Blades

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• Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Your Side, Sides, Surrender

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Desire, Culture, Each Day

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press

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• I know: "Guns Don't Kill People." But I suspect that they have something to do with it. If you point your finger at someone and say, "Bang, bang, you're dead," not much actually happens.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, People, Bangs

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• The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Justice, Judging

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• But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Thinking, Cover Ups

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.68, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Drug, Wish, Demand

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

  J. M. Coetzee

  Cold

  J. M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime: Fiction”, Viking Press

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• One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Might, Universe

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.229, Dial Press

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• It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

  Katharine Tynan

  People, Dying, Strange

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• It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Enemy, Dangerous

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• Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Littles, Deceiving, Neglect

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1883). “Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.”

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• He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Eye, Portraits, Truthful

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• I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Odds, Two, Silence

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, November 20, 1872.

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• If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Ignorance, World

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.153, Innovations and Information

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• All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Laughter, Argument, I Can

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• It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Party, Self, Suspicion

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.166

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• I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Literature

  Jane Austen (2013). “Emma (the Very Illustrated Edition)”, p.430, eBookIt.com

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• You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with murder suspects?' He waved his hand. 'Oh, I was only joking about that. I don't really think you murdered someone. Unless you did, in which case I reserve the right to say I knew it all along.

  Derek Landy

  Thinking, Hands, Rooms

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• THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.

  Demetri Martin

  Artist, Self, Two

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