Suspicion

Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,You have a wrong sow by the ear.

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Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

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All seems infected that the infected spy,As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

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All is not well;I doubt some foul play.

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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

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Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:So soon as that spare Cassius.

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A person does not incur suspicion unless he has done the thing; and if he has not done it wholly he has done it partly; and if he has not done it partly, he has a mind to do it; and if he has not had a mind to do it, he has seen others doing it and enjoyed

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Julius Cæsar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."

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As to Cæsar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Cæsar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."

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