““Can I trust you, my friend?”
“If you can’t, then what is my assurance worth?””

— Robert A. Heinlein, book Beyond This Horizon

Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 4, “Boy meets Girl”, p. 48

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