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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), U.S. writer, physician. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 2 (1858).)
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
(Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), U.S. journalist, humorist. "Casual Observations," Mr. Dooley's Philosophy (1900).)
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Trust, but look for the exits.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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I trust you because I need you.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Oedipus Colonus, l. 611.)
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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron- clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. letter, Sept. 27, 1922. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 4, eds. James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts (1987).)
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Where from their pulpits sealed with dust
They preach: 'In greatness is no trust'.
(Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 21-22). . .
Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Quotations—always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
(Jean Rostand (1894-1977), French biologist, writer. repr. In The Substance of Man, p. 191 (1962). Carnets d'un Biologiste.)
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For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 224.)
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Speech, July 24, 1838, at Dartmouth College. "Literary Ethics," Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849).)
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