#discretion

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. ↗

— Hannah More

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Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man. ↗

— William Godwin

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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Philosophy is nothing but discretion. ↗

— John Selden

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