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It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

—Cory Doctorow, 2013

The life of spies is to know, not be known.

—George Herbert, c. 1621

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

—David Sedaris, 2004

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837

I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1735

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

—Petronius, c. 60

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885
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