#suspicion — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #suspicion, aggregated by home.social.
-
A quotation from Josh Billings
He who suspekts everyboddy, should be watched by everyboddy.
[He who suspects everybody should be watched by everybody.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1874-11 (1874 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83752/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #character #distrust #humannature #misanthropy #mistrust #projection #skepticism #suspicion #trustworthiness #untrustworthiness
-
But it is just those books which a man possesses, but does not read, which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. The Spanish Inquisition have deliberated on that point, and have come to a conclusion that places the matter beyond further doubt.
[Mais ce sont précisément les livres qu’un homme ne lit pas qui l’accusent les plus. L’inquisition d’Espagne a jugé ce point, et l’a mis hors de doute.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Toilers of the Sea [Les Travailleurs de la Mer], Book 1, ch. 4 (1866) [tr. Thomas (1911)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/80957/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #books #condemnation #inquisition #reading #suspicion #spanishinquisition