It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013
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The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837I 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, 1863Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885