#discretion

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#lover #without

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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

#discretion #else #every #every man #forget

(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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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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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget. ↗

— John Spratt

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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

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Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or not like him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles so lavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate, graces so multitudinous. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #romance #woman #love

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

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