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When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.

— Thomas Brooks Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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