A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
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  1. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Sir Francis Bacon
  2. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. - Christian Nestell Bovee
  3. Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end. - Leon Gambetta
  4. Let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action. - William Shakespeare
  5. The better part of valour is discretion. - William Shakespeare
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  3. A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
  4. Tearless grief bleeds inwardly
  5. There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.
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