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Eric Hoffer Quotes: The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
         

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.


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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.



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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.





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