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As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Francis Bacon
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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Saki
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
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William Shakespeare
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
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William Shakespeare
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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William Shakespeare
Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy, How well supplied with noble counsellors, How modest in exception, and withal How terrible in constant resolution, And you shall find his vanities forespent Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus, Covering discretion with a coat of folly; As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots That shall first spring and be most delicate.
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William Shakespeare
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
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William Shakespeare
Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.
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