"The treacherous are ever distrustful." — J.R.R. Tolkien

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• It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. — James A. Baldwin
• When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and… — Paulo Coelho
• You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you;… — Wallace D. Wattles
• What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding… — Brad Dourif
• Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then… — Julian Barnes
• I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with… — James Branch Cabell
• A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money… — Robert D. Putnam
• The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and… — Alexander Lowen
• With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious… — Nikola Tesla
• A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and… — Josiah Tucker
• I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally… — Thomas Jefferson
• Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic… — P.J. O'Rourke

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