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• If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Relax, Should

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• Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.112

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• I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Honesty, Passion, Long Ago

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• I think she suspects something, though. We’ve had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row.” His voice drawled, and my smile deepened.

  Kim Harrison

  Night, Thinking, Voice

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• I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Country, World, England

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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• That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

  Helen McCloy

  Money, Trying, Moments

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• That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and share all the popular political superstitions of the moment as ardently as he can. But he must not have principles. He must never let the people suspect that they cannot eat their cake and have it. He must promise them a defense program and a higher standard of living. He must never use that dreadful little word or.

  Helen McCloy

  Political Opinions, Cake, People

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• O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Father, Distrust

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [161]

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• I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

  Charles Lamb

  Hate, Men, Matter

  "Charles Lamb: Selected Writings".

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• As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

  John Updike

  Life, Self, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.3, Random House

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• I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

  Gore Vidal

  Grandparent, Phrenology, Belief

  Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

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• When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.

  Kin Hubbard

  Moral, Opinion, Conformity

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loathing, Admiration, Efficiency

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Mind, Principles

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.18

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• I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

  Simone Signoret

  Actors, Answers, Alive

  Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Age, Doctrine, Fiction

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

  Stephen Dunn

  Thinking, Parent, Littles

  "Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. April 26, 2001.

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• Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

  Patricia T. O'Conner

  Writing, Thinking

  Patricia T. O'Conner (2000). “Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

  Edwin Meese

  People, Giving, Police

  "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, p. 67, October 14, 1985.

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• Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it.' And even 'bullshit.'

  Tim Parks

  Believe, Writing, Hands

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• I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

  Ariel Gore

  New Relationship, Irritated, New Friends

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• I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

  David Hume

  Race, Civilization, Action

  David Hume (2007). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.213, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Husband, Wife

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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