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Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
Roy Jenkins
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O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!
William Shakespeare
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When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman
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Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
Vaclav Havel
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Distrust unsolicited advice.
Aesop
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He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
Ralph Fiennes
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It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.
George Eliot
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with,
yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Distrust interested advice.
Aesop
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There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
Elsa Triolet
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I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
Edmund Burke
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When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.
Cheng Yen
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Edward Abbey
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I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
Tamora Pierce
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I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.
Anthony Hopkins
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Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.
Louis MacNeice
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Idries Shah
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Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.
Ronald Reagan
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Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
Amelia Barr
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Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Seneca the Younger
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The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.
Alexander MacLaren
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne Carson
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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
Wendell Phillips
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
Pierre Omidyar
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There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
Alan Moore
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Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
Allen W. Wood
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When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.
Deepak Chopra
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Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
William Shakespeare
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Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg