All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  Enemies of Promise, ch.16.

Science is the knowledge of consequences and the dependence of one fact upon another.

-Hobbes,Thomas
Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.

I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.

-Stein, Gertrude
Of Addison's contribution to theTatler. Preface to vol.4 of the collected edition.