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Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Distrust

Usurpator diffida
Di tutti sempre.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
Alfieri—Polinice. III. 2.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot—Middlemarch. Bk. V. Ch. XLIV.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Samuel Johnson—Irene. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 87.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
Madame Necker.

Three things a wise man will not trust,
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman’s plighted faith.
Southey—Madoc in Azthan. Pt. XXIII. L. 51.