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"There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life." »Joseph Addison
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"discretion in speech is more than eloquence." »Francis Bacon
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"discretion is the better part of valor." »Anonymous
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"discretion is not the better part of biography." »Lytton Strachey
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"discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." »Anonymous
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"discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy." »Spanish Proverb
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"discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life." »La Bruyere
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"Nothing more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable." »Jean de La Fontaine
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"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee
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"The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone." »E.M. Cioran
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"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion." »Democritus
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness." »George Santayana
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness." »George Santayana
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"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion." »James Burgh
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