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• My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Son, Jewels

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.81, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Years, Wind

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932, Volume 1”, p.797, Best Books on

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• The French probably invented the very notion of discretion. It's not that they feel that what you don't know won't hurt you; they feel that what you don't know won't hurt them. To the French lying is simply talking.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hurt, Lying, Talking

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• I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.

  Henry VIII of England

  Men, Charity, Busy

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• Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

  John Adams

  Strength, Peace, Patriotic

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• To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.

  John Adams

  Men, Self, Hands

  "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government". Book by John Adams. Chapter 3: "Marchamont Nedham: Errors of Government and Rules of Policy", Sixth Rule, 1787.

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• Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

  Eloisa James

  Synonym

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• Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

  John Lubbock

  Years, Purpose, Life Is

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

  Andrew Thomas

  Outcomes, Individual, Judicial System

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• Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Thinking, Emotion

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Giving, Office

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.234, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Community, Chance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Worry, Giving

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• A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Secret, Asking, Secrecy

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.102, Macmillan

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• They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
  Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
  [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte.
  Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]

  Torquato Tasso

  Wise, Sky, Heaven

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• We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

  Hugo Black

  Believe, Judging, Trials

  Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337, 343, 1970.

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• Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

  Julia Glass

  People, Guessing, Sometimes

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• There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

  Helen Cresswell

  Things In Life, Knowing, Frustrating

  Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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• Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway
  The mind of man, must always make her way;
  Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,
  Is all her malice worth a single thought.
  The wise have not the will, nor fools the power,
  To stop her headstrong course; within the hour
  Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife
  Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

  Charles Churchill

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Charles Churchill, “The Author”

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• Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Sleep, Exercise, Essentials

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• If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

  Hannah More

  Littles, Modesty, Parades

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.344

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• Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Children, Mean, Vegetarianism

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• Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

  John Gregory

  Enemy, Talent, Dangerous

  Mrs. Chapone (Hester), John Gregory, Lady Sarah Pennington (1827). “Letters on the improvement of the mind: addressed to a lady, by Mrs. Chapone. A father's legacy to his daughters, by Dr. Gregory. A mother's advice to her absent daughters, with an additional letter, on the management and education of infant children, by Lady Pennington”, p.166

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• I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, School, Loss

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2750, Delphi Classics

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• I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Believe, Serious, Defense

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